What is love really?
An expression? An emotion?
Like a gift that can be opened?
Love is something that’s cute…
And within that there’s some truth
But to me,
The fact that God can be spelt
L.O.V.E
Has opened up my mind to what love can truly be, see…
It’s a love that February 14th
Can’t quite comprehend
Because this type of relationship couldn’t just mend with an
“I love you” if things were tough
Because NOTHING we do could ever be enough,
Unless we ourselves had hung on that Calvary cross
But NO
Jesus already did that for us
When he was whipped, mocked and spat at
Yet he barely even tossed, you see…
Sacrificial love had to come at a cost
So then, If not for His grace
Where would we be?
Merely alive but not living,
Broken and still sinning
We could never win… In fact,
If it wasn’t for the blood
That was shed on the cross,
This sacrificial love for us,
Our living would prove a loss
Everything ‘meaningful’ into
Nothingness.
But hallelujah
Glory be
To our Lord that hung on the tree
Not just for me, he or she
But for plural WE
He showed a love that literally
Bled
Purity
He died for us all,
Came and conquered,
Jesus took that fall,
With our sins, our shame our mistakes and He
Wiped every inch away and
Ruled them out of the game
Yet… He wasn’t playing
Now our canvas is clean,
Without a stain
All we have to do is have faith
To obtain this sacrificial love
This new beginning
Because by His stripes we are healed
Past, present and future tense
His love will not change
So you see He loved us first
But now we’re a team,
If we only look within then
We’ll lose the steam
But for Jesus
It may seem obscene
But to go farther, to reach the furthest, the finish line, the goal…
We must look up
We will not strike our foot,
And He will fill our cup
Why choose luck when you can lean on the Rock of salvation?
The Saviour of the nation,
The God of all creation,
We are forgiven because He was forsaken
That is Sacrificial Love.
That is the love that will always be patient, and kind
And all the other things that will probably
Blow your mind
A love that slid into history like a glove
The symbol of love
A love that silently screamed salvation
…Yes, you may say you’ve heard this all before
But love,
Do we really give it enough appreciation?
Think about it,
The curtain was opaque
But because of the weight that He bore,
It split into a thousand beams of beautiful rays and
Now we are lights reflecting Jesus’ love
Because we are SAVED,
we are FREED, and
I’ll forever stand amazed
At what my God did for me,
I said we are SAFE, we are FREE,
I will FOREVER stand amazed
At what my God did for me
Summed up in verse 16 of John 3.
Sacrificial Love.
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