So this is how it feels,
Lean in to kiss the one you love and she turns a cheek
Tell ya how it feels,
watchin the walls of the house that you built start crumblin
Yeah you feel love is passin by
One more time
But you're not surprised.
Chorus:
Yeah we're all amateurs and heaven knows we're not perfect
We try to get it right, and we keep messin up but we're learnin.
When the day is done (Whoa-oh), I wanna know
How do you love someone,
how do you really love someone?
If you're further down the road, put up a sign arrow to show me which way to go
Yeah maybe you could start a fight
If your love is strong we could just follow small
Yeah you feel like you're broken down, way down
Til the truth comes out.
Chorus
Yeah we keep messin up this love
Chorus x 2
This song is beautifully written. It sparks interest for me to understand further on his question: How do you REALLY love someone? What does Scripture say about loving someone?
Jesus loved us so deeply, and he has the ultimate perspective which is revealed to us through these prayers:
Jesus Prays for Himself (John 17:1-5) "Father (God), the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began."
Jesus Prays for His Disciples (John 17:6-19) "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name--the name you gave me--so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth, your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified."
Jesus Prays for All Believers (John 17:20-26) "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that or sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
Wow. Jesus showed us how to really love by praying for us to remain in his love that transforms our hearts. Love is a verb. LOVE DOES. So take to heart these verbs Jesus uses in his prayers: Glorifies, Knows, Reveals, Prays, Gives, Obeys, Accepts, Sends, Believes, Protects, Keeps, Sanctifies, Unifies and (most importantly) Love Remains.
In Christ's Love,
Jon
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