“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”
Proverbs 3:3 NIV
Love has become so many things for me in recent weeks, I don’t know how I lived without it so long. Not very well apparently. Yet I’m so glad to understand it better and be able to share a little of it.
Love is solid ground. I’ve become so sure of God’s love, so sure I can stand on it, and it holds my whole weight easily and doesn’t buckle at all. The difference is so striking, I guess I been walking in a bog all my life, uncertain of my standing with God, uncertain of my ultimate future. But not any more. I know beyond any doubt that God loves me and always will, no matter what happens to me. Not only can I stand and be still here on His love, I can run or jump and Love will still be here to hold me up.
Love is a launch pad. While love is solid enough to stand on, it gives just enough to bounce on, to leap from. More than that, it’s tough enough to handle the fires from my rocket launchers. Love will support my launch into the stratosphere, and withstand the force of my return. This is my chance to become all I can, to grow, to go, to explore frontiers I’ve always dreamed of but assumed was too risky for me. Love will help me do it, help me succeed at it, and be here when I need to come home.
Love is a safety net. All along my climb I will pause to build love deep, wide, and strong. These nets of love anchored to points of experience will catch me in case I slip or fall. Love will prevent me from falling all the way back to the bottom, to the beginning. It will help me climb back up again and keep me climbing higher than ever.
Love is built one word, one verse, one decision one day at a time. Do not neglect to study and accept the Love of God for you daily. And be sure to share that love with someone every day. Once a day is powerful, but you don’t have to stop there. What would happen if you built love multiple times, in multiple ways, with multiple people? That is my next experiment. I can’t wait. Mu-hahaa!
Oh God, I’m beginning to see why You love so much, so hard. Not only because it’s who You are and You can’t do anything else, not only because it is the greatest power in existence, but also because… it’s so much fun! Thank You God for your love! Let’s go!
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