Oh How He loves Us...

Do you ever find yourself caught in a net of empty feelings? Like a star burst inside of your heart creating a black hole that is sucking you into it's nothingness. I think for most people this is commonplace, like making their bed or washing the dishes.

While you hum and airdrum to your favorite song playing on your ipod, your soul is being swallowed by the deepest darkness. Then you do a little workout, catch a shower, read a chapter of your favorite book and head out the door to meet the world in all it's fullness. You skip and laugh and smile at those all around, black holes ripping away through every man, woman and child you encounter. Then along the path, the sadness seeps a little deeper and your smile slowly fades away. Your pace becomes staggered. Breathing grows heavy and tears well up around the corners of your eyes. Looking at your hands and feet and clothes and surroundings, you wonder what happened to that thin blanket of peace and happiness you were clinging to. You start noticing that the world is falling apart and where funny things, silly things, colorful things once stood, now stands shadows. Fear sets in and in your panic you reach for your phone to look at the list of friends in your phonebook. As you scroll down the list, your once good friends become acquaintances, more like strangers with similar enjoyments. Loneliness joins fear and give power to the black hole until the person that thought everything was good and fine is nothing more than a pile of kindling waiting to absorb the heat of the fire you were created to feed. Hope and love and all good things escape eyesight until there remains only pain, bitterness, remorse, hatred and longing...

But then...something unexpected begins to happen...

A slight warmth steals away the coldness that gripped you so tightly.

A song is being sung in the distance. You can hear it...coming closer now.

Where shadows reigned, light is beginning to penetrate and you see the black hole that eats away at you. So your first instinct is to run back to the darkness because it hid the ugliness that is one with you...but a voice comes out of the song you hear. The song from the light in the distance.

It's His voice! Can you hear it now?! It's not coming out of the song. It is the SONG! He is the song! Listen to Him! He comes NOW to rescue you! Listen to His song! Listen NOW!

O How He LOVES US!! HE LOVES US, HE LOVES US, HE LOVES US!! O HOW HE LOVES US!!
HE LOVES US!! O HOW HE LOVES US!! HE LOVES US HE LOVES US HE LOVES US!!! O HE LOVES!!!!!

The black hole disappears and you become WHOLE. Tears are wiped from your eyes in a flurry of His wind. You take His Divine Hands and dance and dance and dance. You keep your eyes closed for a bit because it is too much for you to handle, then slowly, one eye at a time, you open them and standing before you is GLORY. Standing with you is BEAUTY. Standing for you is LOVE. And He sings for you, He sings and laughs and carries you above the stars into His place of REST and calls you His own. There it goes, the pain, there it all goes, the worry, there it goes, let it go, let it go, let it all go...it's gone.

He places you back in this place where darkness still lives and He promises it can't cover you anymore. It can't steal from you anymore. It can't because your presence is it's poison. He continues to sing and out of the song you feel the love He has for you, but not just you, but those others..."Look back there" He sings and you look back and you see the countless others still enslaved by the kings of emptiness and you notice their pain. He says I have saved you so that you can bring them to me. I AM worthy. I AM deserving. I AM rescue and now I will put MYSELF into you.

This is who we are. This is our story. I AM has put HIMself into us so we can sing "o how He loves us, o how he loves us, how HE loves us" and we will sing it forever. But He also saved us so that we can bring those others to HIMself so that they can sing too..and when the stars have faded and all things burn under His fire and He ushers us into newness, then we will sing this song FOREVER and TOGETHER and it will resound off the walls of heavens gate and HIS SONG WILL BE HEARD FOREVER. We will sing for Him because He first sang for us...

So hear it now...hear Him now. He sings for you.

O How He Loves Us