It is with burning, swollen eyes, moist nostrils, and a warm breath that I write this blog tonight. I dont know where to start. I am COMPLETELY broken before God and even before myself. Could we ever comprehend His love...so unconditional.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
In 2002 I attended a Youth Convention at San Fernando Open Bible Church. This was my first youth convention of this kind. I will never forget the song sung that night: "I want to know what love is, I want you to show me, I want to feel what love is, I know you can show me..." (1984) Those words got my attention. Maybe it articulated the words of my little heart. I wonder if Mick Jones knew that those words would resonate in my heart and touch a rejected, fatherless, lonely girl almost 8 years after he wrote it.
I did find the answer Mr Jones. lol
At the end of my reading of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) I believe I had a simliar "burning, swollen eyes, moist nostrils, warm breath" experience. Syndey Carton was and will forever be the hero of that novel.
"It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known"
Then I understood it. LOVE IS SACRIFICE. Mick Jones may not have read Dickens' novel.
I looked at Kal Hoo Naa Hoo (2003) and yes I had that "burning, swollen eyes, moist nostrils, warm breath" experience once more. The Notebook (2004) also held the answer to Mr Jones question. LOVE IS SACRIFICE.
I thought I had understood it each time it re-presented itself before me. Each time I was broken, I thought I had fully grasped what love essentially meant. Then tonight the real answer was whispered in my spirit!
Seven Pounds (2008) written by Grant Nieporte. LOVE IS SACRIFICE.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
I cried.
Throughout this movie I cried. I cried for the unloved. I cried for myself. I wanted to know a love so strong, so unconditional, so sacrificial. A story about one man sacrificing his organs to save the lives of others and atone for the lives he took touched me.
Then it was whispered, "I gave my entire life" and I saw the image of my dying Saviour Jesus with outstretched arms on the cross!!!!!!!! That blood he shed was for me! His life was given in order for me to have life and have it abundantly! He knew no sin yet he became sin in order for me to have life!
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Didn't Mick Jones know that the answer was in John 3:16, John 15:13 and the entire Bible all along?
To truly love means to give and to give without wanting in return. Love, Agape love, is unconditional and sacrificial.
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