What it Means to Love

I heard this song the other day by Meredith Andrews called "What it Means to Love"...she wrote it after a mission trip to Haiti that changed her life.

How could I forget your face 

When all it took was just one day?

For me to see it wasn't ordinary

I could never be the same.

You took my hand and led the way

I didn't even know your name

But something happened deep inside me

And I knew life would have to change.

So how could I go back to life as usual?

And how could I return to who I once was?

I just want to take your story to the world

'Cause you have showed me what it means to love.

You healed the sick, You calmed the sea

But Your heart was for the least of these

You came to love the lost and broken

Your cross has set the captive free

So how could I go back to life as usual?

And how could I return to who I once was?

I just want to take your story to the world

'Cause you have showed me what it means to love.

Now I no longer live for myself

Your words are so clear

Help me live it loud enough

So they can hear

I've decided that I want the message of this song to be theme of this season of my life.  The Lord is doing some amazing things within our church (Pinelake) and we are being challenged to claim the call of Christ on our lives to "Outlive our Lives" for the purpose of making His Name known.  Our lives are fleeting vapors...what we do with our lives should be about Eternity because the only things that matter in this world are of eternal value.  Taking the Gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth, Living sacrificially, Being a part of a Godly community, Loving people, Seeking the face and heart of God daily...this kind of life is of eternal significance. 

I got spend this weekend with my closest friends from college.  What a special gift from the Lord to have friends whose hearts are set on knowing Him deeper.  Right before we left to go our separate ways, my friend Katie challenged us to think of a word that we hoped would define the year 2011.  Meredith chose the word, "Heaven"...wanting this year to revolve around having an eternal mindset, not living for the pleasures of this world, but for eternity.  I pray that this would be the theme of the rest of my life...that my eyes would be set on heaven--that my heart would be stirred for things that only matter for eternity.

My heart echoes the words of Paul in Philippians 3,

"But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  For this sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ."

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