love
Tuesday, August 31
love is an amazing thing.
it is innately powerful.
to even attempt to describe it in words already does injustice to the true nature of love. in fact, to even try fully understanding this idea of love is something impossible to do, a concept too complicated and multi-faceted for our minds to wrap around. really, there is nothing like love.
haha, it really really really is just... haha i don't know, i'm speechless! (:
one of the most memorable depictions of love that i've come across in literature is in the book
'A Wrinkle In Time' by madeleine l'engle. yes, the representation comes across simply, but it is perhaps the aspect of love which i hold dearest to my heart.
at the climax of the book, the protagonist, meg murry, enters a confrontation with the antagonist, IT, a disembodied brain, to save her dearest youngest brother. despite her every effort to overcome IT, she initially fails in her quest, till she realises the one thing she possesses that her enemy does not: love. and it is with this cosmic love that she reaches out, eventually enabling her to save her brother.
though fictitious, how much truth this story holds. even in our lives, love is our most powerful weapon. it is a weapon that is given to us by God, the One who poured and continues to pour out His love for us. it is a weapon that our enemy is unable to wield, a weapon that is able to cut through every evil work and release us, as well as others.
because love conquers all.yes, though unfathomable, the large scale of breakthrough it can bring about is truly undeniable. in the recent days, this has been impressed so deeply into me. that when all else seems lost, and all human methods fail, love is the answer to it all. that even the mere expression of love to another, one so dear to you, is enough to push him out of inertia. and that to be on the receiving end of love so pure is enough to pull you out of a pensive reverie as well (: indeed, love is
just that powerful.there is a love which is always there, a love far greater in magnitude than any other, a love that is ever present. and that is the love of God the Father.
the fact that we have so many countless songs about God's love only goes to show how great His love for us is! that even the number of songs we have is not enough to fully express the full extent of His love, and so we have to continue writing even more!
haha, i know people don't really read lyrics when people post them on blogs, or at least i don't... but i shall put some here anyway, because i like these lyrics (: in the lyrics i've put down below, i've never seen or heard God's love portrayed so beautifully through the vivid use of imagery before (: it really makes me feel like a carefree little child running around the place while the Father looks down smilingly with love!
How He Loves by Jesus CultureVERSE 1He is jealous for meLove's like a hurricane, I am a tree Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory and I realize just how beautiful You areand how great your affections are for meOh, how He loves us so Oh, how He loves us How He loves us soCHORUS Yeah, He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves. VERSE 2 So we are His portion and He is our prize Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes If grace is an ocean we're all sinking So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way indeed, when we keep God's abundant love in perspective, how can we be bothered with any sadness and regrets we have? it all just vanishes in the light of God's love! sloppy wet kiss, hehehe :D
i hope that in my life, i'll continue to be a channel of love and blessings to those around me. that even as the Lord pours His love into my cup --- wait no, that's too small --- my barrel, that the love will just overflow and spread to those around me, whom i really love too! i guess it really is a mutual support system. that even as we receive the love from God, we continue to spread the love to one another!
how deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure (:
ilyvvvvmsd (:
AMEN;
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