More Like Falling in Love

This morning I was driving, and heard a song I haven't listened to in a while. I may have written about it when I first started this blog, but I can't remember. It's a song by Jason Gray, one of Christian music's best kept secrets as I recently read. The song was the first one of his that I had heard, and it's called "More like falling in love".

Give me rules,I will break them
Show me lines,I will cross them
I need more than a truth to believe
I need a truth that lives, moves, and breathes

To sweep me off my feet, it's gotta be

More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It's like I'm falling, oh
It's like I'm falling in love

Give me words, I'll misuse them
Obligations, I'll misplace them
'Cause all religion ever made of me
Was just a sinner with a stone tied to my feet

It never set me free, it's gotta be

More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It's like I'm falling, oh
It's like I'm falling in

Love, love, love deeper and deeper,
It was love that made me a believer
In more than a name a faith, a creed
Falling in love with Jesus brought the change in me

It's gotta be

More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It's like I'm falling, oh
It's like I'm falling

It's gotta be

More like falling in love
Than something to believe in
More like losing my heart
Than giving my allegiance

Caught up, called out
Come take a look at me now
It's like I'm falling, oh
It's like I'm falling in love

It's like I'm falling
I'm falling in love
It's like I'm falling

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXHxpLvv2y8)

That's the beauty of Christianity. It isn't a set of rules to follow, or a list of facts to memorize, it's a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Religion simply makes us sinners that are helpless without grace. It doesn't set us free, but rather enslaves us to tradition and ritual. But a relationship with Jesus, brings grace, and with that grace comes freedom.

Christianity isn't something that can be figured out. No one ever would have thought this thing up. The idea of God becoming fully human, taking the punishment of humanity upon Himself, and then freely returning the reward of His suffering back to man is unique to Christianity.

But none of these comments will ever convince a skeptic. There is nothing I can say that will make anyone believe. There is no argument that I can make that will bring someone to conviction. The only way for a life to be transformed is through love. This thing called Christianity is not something to believe in to avoid hell, but it's falling in love and entering to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

This isn't about following the rules to avoid punishment. It isn't about seeing how close we can get to the line of sin without actually crossing it. This is about a relationship based on unconditional love. Love that has made the greatest sacrifice and would do it all over again if necessary. Love that transforms and redeems. This thing called Christianity is all about love, and therefore entering into it has to be more like falling in love than simply believing, more like losing your heart than pledging your allegiance.

I've pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands more times that I can count, but I've lost my heart to my wife. My loyalty goes to my wife before my country, and my loyalty to her is stronger than any I could ever have for a nation. That's because there is a commitment stronger than any words I could ever say for my wife. There is love welding us together.

Marriage is the closest model we have of the relationship that Jesus wants with us, His Church. In marriage we see two people willingly coming together, loving and respecting each other, prepared to do anything for the other person. It's because they are in love. Love is the foundation, and so it's got to be more like falling in love.

"I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread."

To God alone be the Glory!

Peace be with you