...As it was made to be

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.

And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.

Get over your hill and see what you find there,

With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

• Mumford and Sons

Love that will not betray you, 

dismay or enslave you,

It will set you free

Be more like the man 

you were made to be.

There is a design,

An alignment to cry,

At my heart you see,

The beauty of love 

as it was made to be.

• Mumford and Sons

I listed a couple songs that talk about love. These may or may not be very well known, they are lyrics from one of my favorite bands. They don’t consider themselves to be a christian band or to have christian lyrics, but their message seems to be threaded with truth. It reminds me of what the Word says about love.

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” - 1 John 4:18

Galations 5:1 also talks about the freedom we have in Christ. I believe that freedom is a product of our acceptance of the love of Christ and our trust in it. 

Today I was reading A. W. Tozer’s classic, “The Knowledge of the Holy” and he wrote about the friendship of the Lord. In humility we come to Him, saying we are not worthy, but what about the love that He has given us and the position we have that He has offered to us? I could go into a discussion of the freedom of His love here, but I was stuck on the position that He speaks about his children having; we are heirs, and therefore can boldly approach our Father:

The Disciples might well have hesitated to claim friendship with Christ, but Christ said to them, “Ye are my friends.” Modesty may demur at so rash a thought, but audacious faith dares to believe the Word and claim friendship with God. We do God more honor by believing what He has said about Himself and having the courage to come boldly to the throne of grace than by hiding in self-conscious humility among the trees of the garden(Tozer 96).

God has given us access to the throne. As believers, we not only have the ability to come to Him, He desires us to. The mercy seat enthrones Him who gave us, inferior beings who struggle with pride, sin and all kinds of lusts, life. And all the while, we dishonor him when we call ourselves unworthy of the position He gives. I will honor my Father, I will approach the throne with boldness...