Something To Think About
"If it doesn't break your heart it isn't love."
These are the words of Jon Foreman, lead vocal of Switchfoot. What do they mean?
A song can be interpreted in a million different ways. (This is one of the many beauties of music.) For me, they depict a picture of a crude wooden cross with a man nailed to it, bleeding from his head, hands, feet and side, saying "Because I first loved you."
See, for Him, it wasn't love any other way; He couldn't take the stripes and not the nails. He couldn't take the nails and not the stripes. He couldn't do it half way. He had to lay it all down in surrender to the Father's will, completely and fully for it to be called "Finished." So, do we show this kind of love? Do we lay it all down, or do we keep a few things that we're not quite ready to give up yet?
Is St. Augustine youthful prayer, "Lord, make me chaste- but not yet." our sinful prayer? How can we possibly claim to love our God, with love that is incomplete? He seeks to make us complete, but how can He if we don't surrender ourselves to the work He promises to do in us?
I beg you today, surrender all that you are, say, do, and think to Him. It isn't love any other way. - Sophia
