Day 28: Love Song for a Savior

Love Song for a Savior describes exactly that - what it is like to fall in love with God.  The first verse says this:

She thanks her Jesus for the daises and the roses
in no simple language
Someday she'll understand the meaning of it all
He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
As close a heartbeat or a song on her lips
Someday she'll trust Him and learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call her and she will come running
and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down and she'll pray,
"I want to fall in love with You"

Over this season, I have been thinking about how my heart is changing - how God is changing my heart.  I have to stop and remind myself not to take even the small things for granted.  I am thankful for my parents and how they have modeled their relationships with Christ for me.  I am thankful for all of the camp counselors in Green Lake that gave their summers in service to model their relationships with Christ for me.

This past summer at camp we focused on the woman at the well for a day.  Reading this story opened my eyes to a couple of things.  First, even if you think you know a story from the Bible, there is probably something else there to be found.  Second, I found something in the woman at the well's story that has stuck with me all year long.  The woman meets Jesus.  She doesn't know it is Him right away.  When He reveals who He is to her they continue to talk - they develop a relationship.  The woman then goes back to her town.  She gives testimony of her relationship with Jesus to others.  There are a group of people in her village that she speaks to.  They hear all about Jesus - but then they realize, they have to go directly to Jesus, they have to establish their own relationships.  They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."   John 4:42

There is a book that I have been trying to read for some time.  I'm a very fidgety reader, so it usually takes me twice as long to concentrate and finish a book.  Both of my parents have read Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz.  In the front cover of the book is this quote:

Sometimes you have to watch someone love something before you can love it yourself.

It is as if they are showing you the way.

I think that is true.  We learn to love by watching others love.  We learn to love by watching God love.  We learn to love by watching God's love in other people.  But God wants an authentic relationship with each one of us.  When we have been shown the way, when we have witnessed Him through others, He wants to meet us personally. 

~SP