I am Yours

I connect very well with music, and I am so thankful that God uses it as a way to speak to me and confirm what He has been telling me. Lately I can't stop singing the bridge of "You Made a Way" by Matt Gilman:


I am Yours, You are mine
And we'll be together, forever.


Isn't that awesome (I'll post the song below). I have been studying 1 John 4 and Psalm 32. 1 John 4 is all about God's love for us, and how we would not know to love unless we've experienced His amazing love: "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love" (1 John 4:7-8). We should never be the same after we've been exposed to the love of God. His love is life-changing. The greatest part of it all is that we can only love God "because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). His love is completely perfect and "casts out fear" (1 John 4:18).


This is such an unbelievably awesome gift that God has given us: His love for a race that has rejected Him in every way, shape, and form imaginable. I have to question myself, how likely would I be able to forgive someone who rejects me and tortures and murders my only child? The answer: probably not likely. It's one thing to reject me, but to treat my child the way Jesus was treated...come on, think about!!! Yet, this person I'm describing is us, the human race. Everyday countless people say the Lord's name in vain. Countless people denounce that God even exists. Countless people are deceived by other gods. Even as Christians, we slip and sometimes think, say, or do things we never would have thought imaginable. But God, being a merciful God, stepped down from heaven to save us. He gave us a chance to encounter His love and seek a relationship with Him. He forgave us of all our sins and all our iniquities. 


I think I'll end this post here. The next post I'll focus on how all of this relates to Psalm 32. Until then, I'm going to be meditating on the following verse:


"Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." (1 John 4:15-16)


Also, as promised, here is the song: