A Love More Faithful Than the Morning

Come close, listen to the story About a love more faithful than the morning The Father gave His only Son just to save us The earth was shaking in the dark All creation felt the Father's broken heart Tears were filling heaven's eyes The day that true love died, the day that true love died When blood and water hit the ground Walls we couldn't move came crashing down We were free and made alive The day that true love died, the day that true love died Search your hearts, you know you can't deny it Lose your life just so you can find it The Father gave His only Son just to save us Jesus is alive He rose again

Good 'ol Phil. I've been listening to some of his oldies, like this song, True Love, and two of my other favorites, Always Forever and Divine Romance. I usually have Phil serenade me to sleep (yes I sleep with headphones, my roommate sometimes sleep talks/yells in German) and I've really started to pick apart some of the lyrics.

Come close, listen to the story About a love more faithful than the morning The Father gave His only Son just to save us

A love more faithful than the morning

"BOOM TOASTED" as Em Ruiten would say. WOW THIS LINE!!! I get two things from it:

God's love is consistent

God's love is persistent

I just totally Rick Warren'd that.

"When rick warren becomes a verb lol what a time to be alive" -Kiana Hertogh

Change can be good or bad. Throughout this transition from high school to college, I've gone through a necessary change. Throughout these next four years, I most likely will change in some way. We may change, our environment will change, but God will not. There isn't an Old Testament OG God that appeared to Moses and a 21st Century God that you can somewhat argue isn't as visible in everyday life: He's consistent. He's the same God in the Old Testament today. He hasn't changed, and I think sometimes I forget that. The same God that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside of us today.

No matter how crappy your day is, morning always comes the next day, and yeah that analogy can seem great but pretty lame when trying to comfort someone. But just trying to wrap my head around something that can be more faithful than the morning... Wow.

My relationship with my dad isn't the greatest. We don't see eye to eye on a lot of things and this past year has been extremely rough. Sometimes I'm just being ignorant to the things he's pointing out and sometimes my dad just doesn't seem to make the effort to try and understand me. But even when I'm unfaithful, God my Father is faithful. Even when I'm undependable, God my Father is dependable. He doesn't love me differently on my good days than on my bad days. He doesn't love me for who I was last year, or yesterday, or who I'm gonna be tomorrow or next year, or even 20 years from now. He loves me just for who I am today. 2 Timothy 2:13 says "If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself." The Bible directly says in Psalms 18:30 "God’s way is perfect. All the Lord’s promises prove true. He is a shield for all who look to him for protection."

God's love is persistent. We hear that God loves us all the time, so much to the point where we're like "yeah yeah I know God loves me, the Bible tells me so". It's so ingrained into who we are as believers and a lot of the times we take it for granted, well, because it is granted. We never did anything to deserve God's love but He does regardless. I think sometimes I forget what's behind God's love for us because it's just a phrase I've heard so often and I've become slightly desensitized to it for no other fault than my own. I often forget why. It's not a virtue that we have, it is His virtue and His decision that He loves us alone. He doesn't bless us upon merit and works, He blesses us simply because He loves us. As Kierkegaard has said, God doesn't love us for the companionship, because He doesn't need it. You see God's love in action through a pure delight in us and a genuine concern for our well being. Psalms 23:6 says "Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life,and I will live in the house of the Lord forever."

Consistency is something that is regular and dependable.

Persistence is something that is unwilling to give up or stop. And I've learned that even if I'm being a little bit annoying, God loves me with persistence and consistency.

God's love isn't a passive joy merely about our existence, its an absolute selfless commitment to us.