Love Songs

Did you ever sing a worship song to God and think, "If you just took out God's name and put in a guy or girls name it would be a great love song to that person"? I have found myself thinking this during church services, and for the past week or so this thought has been on my mind. Why is this the case, and is it disrespectful to God that this song could so easily be sung to someone else?

Over the past few months I've had some experiences that have opened my heart and mind to the heart of God in ways I never expected to see. And as he has showed me things about himself I have come to have such an incredible love and respect for him. But at the same time it has helped me understand so much more about the nature of human relationships and what they are supposed to look like.

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body."

Ephesians 5.25-30

The relationship that Christ has with us is the model relationship that we are supposed to have with each other. As a guy I have, in the past, had difficulty in being excited about being the bride of Christ. But on Saturday night during a prayer meeting one of my teens made a statement in prayer, and when she did, I finally understood that. She simply said, "God you are our beloved husband." but it finally hit me.

The love God has for me, is like the love that I have for the wife that I desire to one day spend my life with. The love that I have for her, and the life I want to give her is one that shows her who she is to God and who she is to me. And as I take the feelings that I have for her, and then take them and give them to God for me, multiplied by an infinite amount, it blows my mind.

The love songs we sing to God, the relationship we have with God, is to be the model relationship we have with each other, it is to be the standard with which we love.

"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you."

John 15.12

Every relationship we are in we are to love the way that God loved us. So if I sing a love song to God and think, I could easily sing this to my future wife, I think that's a good thing, because the love I have for God is supposed to be the foundation for the love I have for her. She does not take the place of God in my life, and I do not love her more or even as much as I love God, but the love I have for God is the basis for, and it gives me the ability to love.

Peace be with you