What do You Think Love Is? (2)

New Series. Sort of. Something for Tuesdays.

What do You think Love is? Love is elusive. Powerful. Different. Strange. Needed. Painful. Essential. Burning. But what is it?

At its core. At its heart. What is Love?

"Everybody's Looking for Love. Oh. Oh."

- Jason Derulo

"Can Anybody find Me Somebody to love?"

- Queen

Today, in continuing a new sort-of-series to try and understand the crux of the Christian faith, that God is Love, I want to share another song. This time it's one written, as I understand it, by Chris Tomlin. This year has been a difficult one - and I've found worship and gathering with people in a church context more difficult than normal. Recently, at HTB, the church my wife and I are part of, we've been singing quite often a song I'd not come across, which really ministers to me:

I'm lucky to have a great earthly Father - seriously, he's brilliant - and so I don't have the same struggle to identify God as Father that some do. But it is always good to be reminded - by the saints singing around you, by the croaking and tentative sounds of your own singing, and even by the words on a screen - of the truth of who God is .

And God is Father (and Son, and Holy Spirit). And this is a good thing. Who we are as Christians - even who we are as humans, in some sense - comes from who God is. These lyrics, I think, make that helpfully clear:

You're a Good, Good Father

It's who you are are, it's who you are, it's who you are
And I'm loved by you
It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am

I've seen many searching for answers far and wide
But I know we're all searching
For answers only you can provide
Cause you know just what we need
Before we, we say a word

You're a Good, Good Father

It's who you are are, it's who you are, it's who you are
And I'm loved by you
It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am

You're a Good, Good Father

And I'm loved by you

You are perfect in all of your ways
Perfect in all of your ways
You are perfect in all of your ways to us

You're a Good, Good Father

It's who you are are, it's who you are, it's who you are

Check back next week for something else, a song, a picture, a quote or something else, which is teaching me what Love is. But what do you think? Does this resonate with your understanding, belief, experience, or conviction of what Love is? I'd love to hear your thoughts - particularly around that ever-hard-to-define/experience/understand notion of God as Father

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