Steadfast Love

"Because your steadfast love is better the life, my lips will praise you." Psalm 63:3 (ESV) So I have been pondering lately what love really means to some people and I have come to the conclusion that human love is fake, cheap, conditional, and as shifty and unreliable as the waves on a beach. What is said and meant one day is tossed to the wind the next. And I began to wonder as human beings are we truly capable of true, un-relentless love? It doesn't take long for us to look and find broken souls who played the "love" game and found themselves empty and deserted. And then I came across the Psalm 63:3 in my Bible reading and it spoke to me. "...Your steadfast love is better than life..." David wrote this Psalm while he was in the wilderness of Judah. He was in a "dry and weary land" (vs. 1) and feeling the weight of his enemies upon him. He felt alone and faint and just needed a break. And we know from David's life that he played the "love" game and ultimately paid for it. But yet even in these bleak circumstances he proclaimed God's unfailing love and that He would praise Him for it. And that is when I fully realized. Many people in this world do not know how to love at all and may never. Now I know that may sound harsh, but you must understand. People cannot truly love unless they know what love truly is. And who is the ultimate Author of love? God Himself. Unless someone has experienced the pure, undeniable, indescribable, uncontainable love of God they can never truly love anyone else. Because the love that God has for us is a steadfast love that is better and stronger than even life itself. It never quits, it never gives up, it never walks out, it never replaces, it never fails. We as human beings until we have accepted the gift of God's love in our lives can never love another human being fully and it is ONLY by God that we can do so because of His presence in us. So we go around chasing down love with multiple partners, approval by family and friends, likes on our social media posts, and followers pleading for the love that they can not give us because they may not truly understand it themselves. Unless someone has fully understood the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross for them and have been filled up with His love and affection anything that they pass on to us will be flawed. God's sacrifice of His Son and Christ's obedience to the cross is true love. Sacrifice that knows no bounds.  And only until we understand and offer MUTUAL sacrifice in our relationships then we will always be left wanting. When you find a love that is better than life itself like David did then you have found LOVE my friends! So I pray your will search your heart and ask yourself if you have opened yourself up to God's steadfast love? Or are you grasping for it in all the things, places, and people the world has to offer? We will never be perfect and the human heart is deceitful above all things, but if we have the Author of love actively flowing through us we will be able to have the capacity to love beyond this world's capability and we will be able to recognize real love for us through flowing though someone else's life. Fight for real love, He has the victory. Share the life-giving love that you have in you to those who may never have experienced it. Sing with joy of the love that He has for you, the blood that was shed while we were yet sinners and how much He wants to offer that to every human being no matter how far they fallen. But remember it must come from Him ultimately, He is the cure, not us. 

"Although the battle, it rages on

The war already won

I know the war is already won....Your love defends me."

-Your Love Defends Me, Matt Maher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=witKT8Y6Da8