I'm single, yet, I love Valentine's day. I like what it stands for, a yearly reminder to love the one God has given you. I love looking forwards to the day when I can give my man a big hunk of chocolate wrapped in bright pink polka-dot foil. I love thinking about the love of Christ. A love that will never let me go.
There are times in your life, when you sense the Father's love for you in a way you never have before. The little phrase "Jesus loves me", never crosses your brain carelessly. And when that realization of the immensity of God's love for teeny tiny, pathetically worm like, little old you settles upon you, life will be changed forever.
It's so simple, yet so very complex. God loves us.
He has since the foundations of the earth were formed. He will when the foundations of the earth fall into dust.
God loves us.
"I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD forever..." Psalm 89:1
There is a poem that is very dear to me. It was written upon the wall of a cell in an insane asylum. We don't know who the man was who wrote it. But, living where he did, with his mind continually tortured, his life was no doubt far worse than anything we could imagine. He was at the lowest spot anyone could be in life. Yet, though no doubt insane and incapable of logical reasoning, he understood the glorious love of God. He had discovered it's height and depth and weight.
These are the words he wrote." Could we with ink the ocean fill and were the sky of parchment made,May we all continue to discover the deep, deep love of Christ, until we lose ourselves in wonder.
Were every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry,
Nor could the scroll contain the whole the stretched from sky to sky."
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Wow, what a poem. Thanks for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteHappy Late Valentine's Day! :)
That was a wonderful post!
ReplyDeleteI had a GREAT Valentine's Day! :)
I've heard that poem before but not the story behind it. It make the poem all the more amazing.
~Amber S.
Oh Amanda,
ReplyDeleteI love that song oh soooo much!
It paints a picture in my mind that I cannot
discribe. It is wonderfull to know that
even if all the world forsake me that I will
still have the love of God.
What a beautiful poem! I'm sure the man that wrote that poem is now walking streets of gold, his mind whole for all eternity! Thanks so much for sharing it!
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This is one of my favorite songs! I never knew the author wrote the lyrics on an insane asylum wall. Definitely adds new meaning to the words. Thanks for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteAmanda, Oh, I just have to tell you that poem is the 3rd verse of my favorite song-- written by F.M. Lehman and copyrighted in 1917. "The Love of God" was also my father's favorite and we used to sing it nearly every week when I was but a child. It is also the one song that I can actually play on the piano and get lost in the moment as I recall all those words of all three verses. Enjoyed your blog.
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