Love showed up
Weeks ago, I listened to Brandon Lake’s Just Like Heaven. It is only this time that I finished processing every word and melody. This song has spoken so much life to me.
Isn’t it just like Heaven
When You walk into the room?
There’s not a thing that’s hidden
When every eye is on You
Can’t get enough of Your presence
It’s the perfect point of view
Isn’t it just like, just like
Just like Heaven?
Ooh
Come a little closer, stay a little longer
Ooh I can’t get enough of You
When I first heard this song, I imagined the very moment when Jesus walked on earth.
I imagined Him walking into a crowded room.
I imagined the exact moment Love showed up.
My heart can’t contain this simple truth:
Love. showed. up.
He must’ve been looking for you and me.
His eyes must’ve looked so kind.
He must’ve had the warmest smile in His face.
I’d probably weep and run to hug him tight.
This song reminded me that
I am Someone’s very reason.
Love showed up for you and me.
He is more faithful than the dawn, an ever-present help.
The dark seasons of my heart and soul teaches me to see with faith what I know to be True when the night feels long.
He says, “you can cease from all the striving and the hustle of performance..regardless of the condition and issues of your heart, my heart remains the same.”
How precious it is to know that there is a Love that shows up and holds you so gently.
My prayer every time I seek is to never feel that I have to do it to gain God’s approval. He reassures me all the time there is no striving in His presence.
As heartbreaking it is to say, it’s so easy to fake worship.
Let’s be real.
It’s also so easy to forget why we do what we do in a crowded room when all reservations arise.
But worship is never a display or a performance. It’s as real as it gets — ugly tears, awkward silences and stutters, intentionally cutting off distractions, finding your posture, discovering your worship language..and the list goes on.
Ecclesiastes made a very significant point when it said, “If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” (c. 11, v. 4)
Worship is never about the set-up, our condition or our feelings…but I love how worship always recognizes what we feel.
No pain dismissed and no moment wasted.
I love how the power of seeking grants us a greater point of view towards what we feel. Matters of the heart make more sense when we process them along with Him.
It’s never what we get out of our secret place that makes our foundation firm, it’s the atmosphere of our heart that matters more and His love towards us that never changes.
This post can never fully explain how this feels..because this Love is something that needs to be experienced only to be understood.
Cry with me friend, and listen with all your heart.
Jesus is madly inlove with you and I.
