What is Love?

When you have loved someone for 4+ decades, you take forgranted the process that it took to get to this amazing love. Love must have a beginning revelation that leads to a commitment. Without a commitment this is lust not love. Once a commitment is made then it will be tested. The staying power is the revelation of the first love and a deligent pursuit to find it again. I fell in love with Billy as a teenager and so growing in love also required growing UP. This is the same process I have had in my relationship to the Lord. I had some early experiences when I felt a touch from Him and yet I was not able to commit. When Billy and I recommited our relationship to each other, we also recommited our relationship to Jesus. That is when we really fell in love. Several more difficult times required a recognition of the need to recommit to love in my heart. Today I stand in that place of a need to fall in love again with my Lord. Grief seems to produce a lot of anger and disappointment. I need to surrender again to the one that unconditionally loves me. I felt the burning in my heart last night when I listened to Doug Stringer and David Ravenhill talk about being on the altar for God and letting His fire consume everything. At that point he begins to give you more than you can ask or imagine. I am thankful that my commitment to the Lord keeps me in this diligent pursuit even when I don't feel like it. I am thankful for new friends like Karen who invite me to hear wonderful speakers. Is this what the two disciples felt like when they were walking on the road to Emmaus? They listened to the stranger talk to them, they invited him to stay with them, He presented life to them in communion and then they realized "Didn't we feel on fire as he conversed with us on the road as he opened up the Scriptures for us?" They found Jesus again after the disappointment.

I LOVE YOU, JESUS
I LOVE YOU, FATHER
I LOVE YOU, HOLY SPIRIT

I recommit to Love