redemption is here

LOVE:
is a movement
is enough
is all

Love is a movement. People have often asked what that phrase means and why is it important to me. The easy answer is that it is the title to a favorite song of mine. A song about redemption and boldness. But more than that, this phrase is truth. Love, begins with God. We would not even know it if we had not been shown, and God's love, so much more than ours, is not simply an emotion, but more of an action. God's love is Christ descending and being forsaken. God's love is the pain of the cross and the beauty of the empty tomb. God's love is the call to the lost sheep. God's love is the willing hands to cleanse the leper. God's love is warm smile to a harlot who has only known hatred. God's love is the tears wept over a dying friend. God's love is the voice that calls out freedom. God's love is food for the hungry. God's love is homeless Savior. God's love is forgiveness spoken from a martyr underneath the crushing stones. God's love is not easy. God's love is not safe. It is not stagnant nor self-seeking. God's love is painful, sometimes breaking us to the core. It is dangerous, scary, and difficult.It is a movement. It removes us from ourselves. "We were made to be lovers bold, in broken places. Pouring ourselves out again and again until we're called home." God's love is the movement that came to us and changed our hearts. God's love is the movement that takes us to the world and empties us again.

Love is enough. If it were all stripped away, if all material things were gone, if family and friends were unreachable, would Christ, would His love be enough to sustain us? Is His love enough to fill our hearts and meet our needs? Nothing else can. "To live on Christ's love is a King's life." If we had nothing else, This love will still fill us. This fufiilling, liberating, and sustaining love is more than we need. To have nothing else, and live on this love alone, we would find that Christ's love is perfectly enough.

Love is all. "Beloved, there is nothing more. No more failures and no more rewards. Than the treasure of my body and blood given freely to all daughter and sons." In face of God's revolutionary, redeeming love, there can be nothing else. No more inadequacies, no more pride. No more of what this world says is important. No other salvation, no other rescue. Nothing else to live for. Love is all we need, all that saves us, and all we should desire.