My Heart, My Love

Here's a bit of pure beauty that I've fallen in love with.  It's by Gungor from their

new CD "Ghosts Upon the Earth".  Not your typical Christian radio station music. 

It's a musical breath of fresh air with a message from Christ to his church. 

The lyrics are below

"I found you naked, I found you lying there in blood.  Your mother left you, your father threw you out, unloved.  I clothed your body, I washed the blood and earth from your hair. I gave you jewelry.  I gave you everything I had.  I gave my heart, my heart, my love."  

"You became mine, you were a stunning bride.  The world they saw you, and how you loved their eyes, my bride.  You broke my heart, my heart, my love."

"You sold your body, exposed yourself to all, my love. You slept with strangers.  You gave them everything we had.  Come back my love.  My love, come back."

This is the love story of Christ and His bride.  Us.  He found us left and unwanted and healed us and clothed our naked bodies, and made us His own.  Just because He could.  Because He loved us. 

And we, his stunning bride, began to look around us at all there was to see.  And we left Him. Just like that. We left His loving embrace for the arms of other lovers.  And we broke the heart of our groom.  We forgot Him and left Him. 

Yet, unlike any human lover, who would have hated us and left us just as we'd left them, He still loved us.  Even while we left Him and forgot from where we'd come, He called out are name.  He called us to return to Him and find love.  And find rest.  And He still calls us, His lost bride, to return to Him. 

I don't understand this love.  A love that would love a wretched thing.  A love that would even take a wretch for a bride.  And even a love that still loved us, even when we'd left Him.  He loves us so much, that He calls us to return to Him, even though we've disgraced ourselves and drug His love through the mud into which we'd fallen. 

Who can even comprehend such love?

This story, as the title of the song suggests, is found in Ezekiel.  It is the story of the nation of Israel from the eyes of God.  And, like us, Israel had metaphorically prostituted herself out to foreign nations and had forgotten the God who loved her.  Ezekiel 16 if you'd like to see for yourself.

The reason I'm so passionate about this love of our Savior for us, is because I believe with all my heart that if we, the church, will begin to understand the great gift we have been given, we will begin to desire to repay that love with our lives.  And thus we will fulfill our purpose upon this earth.  To love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength.  And to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.  It is all He asks in return.  Just our love.