What is Love? Baby don't....

You may wake up to a text every morning that says the same thing every time, something so warm and happy, the phrase that puts a smile on your face. You may say it every single time you get off the phone with certain people, you say it before you go to sleep, you may even say it to the food that you favor, the store that you go into all the time. Those three words that have the strongest definition that we will never be able to comprehend, "I LOVE YOU!" What does that even mean? How can we say “I love you” to a parent then go into our refrigerator and say the same exact thing to our meal, how can we say “I love you” to our wife’s/husbands then step out of a movie and say “I loved it”? Yeah, it may be just a phrase that we say, but I have a feeling that not everyone has really thought about those words, those words that are way more than three syllables and goes further than a Valentine’s Day card. Most of you know exactly what I am talking about and you know what I am about to say, you may have heard it in a sermon or two and let it go out of your memory bank, if it was even allowed entrance. I was listening to a song called “How He Loves” by John McMillan when I got stuck in deep thought and decided to write this blog, I hope you give these words that I say a chance. I don’t know if many of you were like me as a child, I was the biggest brat. At the end of almost everyday, I would know how many paint splotches there were in the corners, I made designs with the cobwebs and my nose collected dust. I would always get in trouble for dumb words that came out of my mouth, for throwing legos at my brother, and for those wrestling matches that I started. When I heard my full name being called by that deep voice, I knew what was coming my way. It was either some more minutes spent with the left corner in the family room, or the hand on the bosom, the same hand that would embrace me shortly after. I was such a messed up little kid who has grown to be an imperfect man. After my punishments, I always remember my dad calling me into the room and talking to me, checking to see if I know why he did what he did, if I learned from my mistakes. No matter how many times my face met the darkest side of the room, I still made the same mistakes over and over and over again. You’d think that it would be so simple to not call my brother names, to obey the easiest rules of the house, but the easier the rules seem to be, are more than not the rules that are the hardest not to break. I went from a little seven year old who threw a fit to losing at video games and started fights because of it, to a 22 year old who is broken as much as everyone else, maybe even more. No matter how many curse words slip out of my mouth, no matter how many people I think badly of in a day, or lustful thoughts that had come into my mind my whole life, I am 100 percent forgiven and Loved more and more every single day. A true Love, a Love that would Love me no matter how many sins I have done. The biggest and most enormous man wants me, and He wants you. On the cross he is stretching out his arms saying “I love you this much”, so give him a chance to show you more of his Love…, even though we will never be able to comprehend that Love, we have it and it is unlimited. So if you ever think that you are unloved, open up that Book, look at that crucifixion painting, and know that no matter how imperfect you are, there is at least one person who loves you...

“If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking”