Repost: Ferocious, Relentless, Love
This is a writing I felt the need to repost, Initially written at the beginning of 2010 it still rings true, and will forever more. I’ll resist my current urge to expound upon the importance of consistent intimacy with God. Nonetheless, despite our ability to initiate intimacy he actually made the first move while we were yet sinners Christ died (Romans 5:8). Once you understand the ferociousness of such a love, the thought of being forsaken is the silliest notion one can conceive. However we must fight to abide in this love.
“Set me as a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave; It’s flames are flames of fire. A most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love all the wealth of his house would be utterly despised.”
(Songs of Solomon 8:6,7 NKJV)
You won’t relent until You have it all My heart is Yours
I’ll set You as a seal upon my heart As a seal upon my arm
For there is love that is as strong as death
Jealousy demanding as the grave
Many waters cannot quench this love
Come be the fire inside of me
Come be the flame upon my heart
Come be the fire inside of me
Until You and I are one…
Relentless-oppressively constant; incessant; Implacable, not to be appeased. Unwilling to change or compromise; Inflexible.
This song captures the ferociousness of Gods love for us and completely set my love for God ablaze this year. Many times when we think of love we get the picture that everything is peaceful and love just happens naturally uninterrupted. I find love to sometimes to be one of the greatest fights known to man. This song went above my love alone for God; it shed light on the nature of His love and how He will stop at nothing to have my heart. Listening to this song constantly evoked images of God going to extreme measures to gain the love of a stubborn people, generation after generation. The words “you won’t relent” struck me to the core of my heart, and revealed how far God was willing to go to gain my love.
I envisioned the Children of Israel and the many signs and wonders God did in their sight all for the purpose of fellowshipping with them in love. I pictured God thinking on his throne, crossing out ideas, planning solutions to gain the hearts of a people disillusioned by lies and temporary gratification. After generations and generations of disappointments, anger, wrath, even fighting his own justice to destroy all mankind and just start over; He finds a solution. He finds the one solution that would trump any and every act of love between man and God. In His relentless pursuit of my love He determines to give his most prized possession, His invaluable son, who has never left his side from eternity past. With this act of love He sends a clear message to His Angels and adversaries in the heavens, on earth, and in hell below how serious He is about this creation. He has been creating for all of eternity past but this… mankind he has created is different and He wants them to know he would go to any length to gain their love.
So in His greatest act of love and His last effort He radically sends his one and only son, and suffers a separation He has NEVER experienced. He subjects His son, a king and His equal to suffers as a murderer, a thief, a liar, an adulterer, and a common criminal in hopes of gaining the love of a nearly lost creation. This was His relentless pursuit that would stop at nothing until love was quenched. This is a love that would reach to the farthest parts of the sea and the highest heights of heaven. This is a love that would reach into the deepest depths, the very bowels of hell without counting the cost. This, my friend is the God kind of love (Agape) that infiltrated my heart one evening in my room. I was overwhelmed by my trials, over my head in bills and facing many issues, I was praying face down, listening to this song then;
God spoke to me “If I would go to such extremes to gain your love, how much more will I sustain and protect you in the midst of your trials? If I did not relent in gaining your love, how much further will I go to keep it? Trust me and trust my love!!”
His voice evoked the deepest repentance in my wavering heart, I repented for my lack of trust and the joy of the lord filled me in my room. His joy and love sustained me through the end of my trials to the point I enjoyed the pressure of my trials and the growth it was producing in me. If your facing anything or have lacked the passion you once enjoyed when you first came to know Christ allow Gods unrelenting love access to your heart, mind, soul, and abilities. Nothing can stand in the way of such a fierce love; He won’t relent, so let this same mind be in you. Determine nothing will cause you to stop fiercely loving God and abhorring all that is contrary to that love. He won’t relent until He has it all…
“Hang my locket around your neck, wear my ring on your finger. Love is invincible facing danger and death. Passion laughs at the terrors of hell. The fire of love stops at nothing— it sweeps everything before it. 7 Floodwaters can’t drown love, torrents of rain can’t put it out. Love can’t be bought, love can’t be sold— it’s not to be found in the marketplace.”
(Songs of Solomon 8:6,7 Message)
