To me, this song by Jesus Culture shows so well the difference between living under law and living under grace. It's the difference between being "trying" to love someone and being "swept up" in love so much you just can't help yourself, you can't hold back, you just pour out with love for your Beloved! He looks at us with love and we are just never the same....ruined by unconditional love, swept away by free grace, overwhelmed by the constant acceptance and delight He pours out upon us! We don't try to love, we fall in love! We aren't forced to love, we are drawn to love. His love causes us to fall for Him...it's relationship He wants - interaction, intimacy, communion, warm embrace, closeness, friendship, conversation and fellowship. It's a love affair He wants - WITH US!
I have looked all my life for someone to love me as I am, to support me no matter what, to never turn away from me, to listen to all my boring ramblings, to delight in me, to share with me all that they are and care about all that I am. Someone to be a bosom friend. Someone to love me, and someone I could love - without fear, without regret, without hiding any part of myself. Someone who would be with me every waking moment, someone who would walk through life with me. It's HIM! It's really Him! He's so real - not a God up in the sky but a Person who lives within. I want to experience Him and His love more and more!
Just can't hold back my love from You, Jesus...
With love to all,
