LOVE

"L. is for the way you look at me. O. is for the only one i see. V. is very very extraordinary. E. is even more than anyone that you adore..."

I've been thinking a lot about love lately, God's love in particular. I feel like sometimes Christians go this deep with God's love and don't realize how INTIMATE God wants our love to be with Him. His love is so amazing, so breathtaking, so indescribable, and we can just blow it off sometimes like it's nothing.
Unfailing.
amazing.
awesome.
crazy.
NO GREATER.
agape.

We need a wake up call to God's kind of love. ok people, He DIED for us. MORE than that, He sent his SON to DIE for us. let's put that into words that someone without or with children can understand...
Think of a sibling, or maybe a best friend, or a parent, or someone who is VERY VERY DEAR to you. now think of you telling that person, "Could you go die? I mean, i have all these people who I want to be with me someday, some people who haven't even lived yet. But the only way they can be with me, and we can party someday, is if you die for them." and then, SEEING them suffer in the most horrible way known to man, but getting a crown of thorns pressed into their head, having their clothes ripped from them and getting tied to a pole to be whipped with the worst thing imaginable and getting their clothes put back on just to be ripped off again, and then carrying this HUGE cross made of wood with a million splinters in it, and at the top of this huge hill they had to climb with this multi-hundred pound cross with a million splinters, laying down on top of it and having someone drive POINTY NAILS THROUGH YOUR HANDS and FEET, and then being put up for all to see.
NAKED
BLOODIED
WEAK
SCORNED AT
DYING

When I put it this way, it sounds a lot worse, huh?! well that's what Jesus went through. When I listen to the song, "You Saw Me" by Hillsong (it's at the bottom of this post), I can't help but thinking that when He was on that cross, there was a slideshow playing in his head of pictures of every single one of us. And when it gets to me, He sees why he died. He sees all my sin that I will have, all the times I will make Him look bad, and He knows that is why he is on that cross, naked, bloodied, weak, scorned at, dying.

THAT is the kind of love that God has for us, and what kind of love I'm supposed to have for him. it's not an gushy, lovey-dovey kind of love you see in movies and feel towards your significant other, it's a bloody, painful, INTIMATE love you can only have with Him.