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10 years on : Your love is strong

A song popped into my head on Saturday. The last time I considered this song was roughly 10 years ago - I sang it at my brother's wedding.

And it hit me, as I teared up a little, how much more precious the words of this song are, 10 years on.


So why should I worry?

Why do I flip out?

God knows what I need.

You know what I need.

Your love is strong


And it struck me: any growth I've experienced in the last ten years is not overly external. I'm still self-interested, I struggle with contentment, I worry about the future. I'm proud, I say things I shouldn't, I hurt people I care about.

The last time I sang that song when I was twenty, I did know that God's love was indeed strong.

But now I have more of an idea of how strong it is. I have a better idea of how weak I am, and how weak, feeble, and half-hearted my love is by comparison. I trust Him more: so when he says His love is strong, I believe him. I feel a desperate need for His love in a way that I didn't understand ten years ago. 

In summary, I love the strength of His love more.

I know it to be true, as I've come to appreciate just what happened at that cruel cross. 

I know that God's love for me is not because of me, but despite me. Isn't that greater love? As he looks into my deepest, most hateful desires - he chose to love me. At great cost, he gave his one and only Son, Jesus. And from it, I've been given rightness, assurance, peace, with my Father.


God knows what I need.

You know what I need.


He has given me everything I need. Peace with him. Available to anyone. The relief and freedom that comes from this is inexpressible. 


Matthew 6 says:

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 


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