I radio surf on my commute to and from work each day. This morning, as I was on my way in, I heard a song that I haven't heard in a long time. It's called "Love's The Only House" by Martina McBride. If you want to watch the music video, it's pretty powerful.
Love is the only way to begin to heal the brokenness of life. To truly love, we need God's love first. His love for us gives us the example of what it means to love unconditionally. He would never ask us to do something that He is unwilling to do Himself. Our Abba Daddy gave His only Son so that our sin could be forgiven. John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Look at it again. He wants to save us. From everything. Not just what we thought we did wrong, but from everything that we ever might do wrong. He wants to draw us close, so that when temptation comes, we are not susceptible to the corrupting influences of Satan.
He wants to love us and celebrate His favorite creation. No matter what your earthly father is like, your Heavenly Father is always loving and gentle, rushing to your defense at every threat. He never wishes to see His children harmed. That does not mean that life will always be perfect, because we are still human. There are still problems in the world, problems which impact us close up or from a distance.
This is a lesson that I've had to learn the hard way. Life hasn't always been gentle, but I've come out on the other side stronger because of my experiences. Now, I feel as though God is saying that it is time to put those experiences into the ministry that He has already chosen for me. He is directing me toward starting a ministry for teenagers, especially teenage girls. I've started to reach out to those who God has placed on my heart to reach out to as I prepare, and I feel as though He is continually using these friends to stretch and grow me so that when this ministry is ready, I will be ready to lead it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzM_lxnzi64&ob=av2e If you aren't able to watch it, or you missed some of the words... Here are the lyrics:
I was standing in the grocery store line
The one they marked express
When this woman came through with about 25 things
And I said don't you know that more is less
She said this world is moving so fast
But I just get more behind with every day
And every morning when I make my coffee
I can't believe my life's turned out this way
All I could say was
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
He was walking by the other day and I said
Hey baby how you been?
Yeah I got me a little girl now and she's 4 years old
And she's got her daddy's little grin
And you only want what you can't have
And baby you can't have me now
I gave me heart to another
Yeah I'm a mother and he's a father
And we've got each other
And I found out the hard way that
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
You drive three miles from all this prosperity
Down across the river and you see a ghetto there
And we got children walking around with guns
And they got knives with drugs and pain to spare
And here I am in my clean, white shirt
With a little money in my pocket and a nice warm home
And we got teenagers walkin' around in a culture of darkness
Livin' together alone, and all I can
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
And I can't explain it and I can't understand
But I'll come down and get my hands dirty and together we'll make a stand
Somewhere cross the parking lot some bands playin out of tune
City streets are gonna burn if we don't do something soon
And senorita can't quit cryin, baby's due now any day
Don Juan left, got sick of tryin
No one there to show him the way she came down to the grocery store and
She said I, I wanna buy a little carton of milk but I don't have any money
I said hey I'll cover you honey cause the pain's gotta go somewhere
Yeah the pain's gotta go someplace
So come on down to my house
Don't you know that
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
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