Undeserving Love

I love the One I don’t deserve. To be loved can be a beautiful thing. To love, well that’s another story. Sure, if it’s mutual, it can be beautiful, maybe even epic. But more often than not, love is a risk. A dangerous, vulnerable, selfless risk. It makes me sad. How the fear of loving keeps so many from acting on it. But what if love wasn’t about what happens, but about the one we love. What if we loved like the One who loves us. What if we loved regardless of whether a person deserved it or not. What if we loved, because He first loved us? People will always hurt us, let us down, disappoint, and even betray us at times. But if we loved them not because of the love they showed us in return, but rather because we love Him; how would that affect this world? He loves us simply because He loves us, and His actions saved us all. Let us love for Love’s sake. Let our love be our praise and gratitude to Him. We aren’t deserving of His love and yet He loves us. The magnitude of His love is impressive, but what is more impressive is that He didn’t choose to love people who love Him back, but rather those who will choose other lovers over Him time and time again. I pray that we would not become a lover of lovers, but rather a lover of the One who is love. And that our love for Him would compel us to show His kind of love towards others.

A thousand times I've failed
Still your mercy remains
And should I stumble again
Still I'm caught in your grace

Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame

My heart and my soul, I give You control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise, become my embrace
To love You from the inside out

Your will above all else, my purpose remains
The art of losing myself in bringing you praise