Lovey Dovey

Because I often think about weird things, I’ve thought a lot about this: if by one death (yours) salvation came to many, would you voluntarily lay down your life? I could say a pretty strong “yes” for my kids, a shaky “yes” for family members, and an “I hope I’m that big of a person” for the rest of humanity.

Romans 5:7-9 states: “We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him. Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way.” For me, understanding Scripture is realizing how I can best apply/interpret them for my life. I thought about this verse today and as I tend to be an object lesson learner, this is what I got.

K says that his song for me is “Wave on Wave” by Pat Green. (I’ll post the lyrics below) One line states, “Am I the one you were sent to save?” And I feel like that; he is the one. The one I was sent to save, the one I am supposed to be with. And in doing so, sometimes I have given up everything to be that salvation. Love in the good times is as easy as falling off a log, but love in difficulty is another matter all together.  Often when we choose to love, we consciously choose to die to ourselves by giving that love to another, even when they aren’t good and noble; even when they don’t deserve to be loved. Even when they let us down and are of no use to us in a literal sense.  Love works perfectly just like that. I don’t pretend to understand the concept, but I like it, I like laying it all down to rescue the “one” and I like receiving the same splendid love in return.  Laters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWnIFlYKjs 

Wave On Wave

Pat Green

Mile upon Mile I got no direction. 
We’re all playing the same game 
We’re all looking for redemption 
Just afraid to say the name 
So caught up now in pretending 
What we’re seeking is the truth 
I’m just look for a happy ending 
All I’m looking for is you 
It came upon me wave on wave 
You’re the reason I’m still here 
Am I the one you were sent to save? 
It came upon me wave on wave 
I wandered out into the water 
I thought that I might drown 
I don’t know what I was after 
Just know that I was going down 
That’s when she found me 
I’m not afraid anymore 
She said, you know I always had ya baby 
Just waiting for you to find what you were looking for 
It came upon me wave on wave 
You’re the reason I’m still here 
Am I the one you were sent to save? 
It came upon me wave on wave 
Wave on wave 
Wave on wave 
The clouds broke and the angels cried 
You ain’t gotta walk alone 
That’s why he put me in your way 
You came upon wave on wave 
It came upon me wave on wave 
You’re the reason I’m still here 
Am I the one you were sent to save? 
It came upon me wave on wave