Do we recognize how much we need God’s love in our life, or put a different way, how much do we desire that love that only God can fulfill? Our lives are so busy, we tend to just push away this desire or we may not even think about it at all. But even when we do contemplate God’s love, we can only express it in terms that a limited human mind can do (like below), in terms of things that are familiar, but it’s so much more than that.
I came across a familiar poem today that expressed, in worldly terms, how much one can desire the love of another, and it reminded me more of whether we desire God at least like this, or is it only this powerfully expressed for the things of this world? If we can express worldly love “like the hot needs the sun, like honey on her tongue, like oxygen, I need your love”, how much greater is the love God has for us? Without the desire for God’s love, and for His Glory, we are just about in the same shape as my widow pictured above, broken.
I have gone over the words below about twenty times now, it’s pretty powerful (even more when put to music), but how much more should we desire God’s love… probably more than we need to take our next breath.
I Need Your Love
Like a desert needs rain Like a town needs a name I need your love Like a drifter needs a room Hawkmoon I need your love Like a rhythm unbroken Like drums in the night Like sweet soul music Like sunlight I need your love Like coming home And you don't know where you've been Like black coffee Like nicotine I need your love (I need your love) When the night has no end And the day yet to begin As the room spins around I need your love Like a Phoenix rising needs a holy tree Like the sweet revenge of a bitter enemy I need your love Like the hot needs the sun Like honey on her tongue Like the muzzle of a gun Like oxygen I need your love (I need your love) When the night has no end And the day yet to begin As the room spins around I need your love Like thunder needs rain Like a preacher needs pain Like tongues of flame Like a sheet stained I need your love Like a needle needs a vein Like someone to blame Like a thought unchained Like a runaway train I need your love Like faith needs a doubt Like a freeway out I need your love Like powder needs a spark Like lies need the dark I need your love I need all the love in your heart... and I need all the love in your heart...
47 responses to “Jesus, I need Your Love, Hawkmoon”
No, I don’t need any gods’ love to make me feel satisfied, fulfilled or worthy and find it rather sad that you do. I am not broken like the window you refer to without a desire for some deity’s approval. I find comfort and solace and warmth in the love of humankind.
I can understand your finding comfort in life itself, although flawed as described, I still appreciate and understand it, but eventually this life will come to an end, and you were created by a power higher than yourself.
As much as we as sinful humans try to control everything, we can’t control life or death and what happens when we die. I hope you find an answer to your insistence that we look within for life and not to our creator, because we will all stand before Him, whether we believe we will or not.
That is so utterly sad that you look at all humans as inherently flawed and sinful. I happen to start from a place of goodness with people and then if they prove me wrong, so be it.
And you have zero proof, not a shred of evidence that you or I or anyone else will stand before “Him” or “Her” or the the Jolly Green Giant after we die.
I live my life knowing that this is the only life that I will have and live it to the best of my ability. I treat my fellow humans with goodness and compassion NOT because I am afraid of standing in judgment by some bogeyman, but simply because it is the right thing to do.
My partner knows and takes great happiness and comfort that I do not lie to him or cheat on him because I love him, not out of fear that some invisible supreme judge will bar me from a silly place with entrance fees.
The flawed outlook is one that can only take moral guidance from fear not from simple humanity.
wow, there are so many things you assume in all those statements, amazing… I do see people as inherently “good” but with a sinful nature. We are all born into a sinful nature or propensity to sin. You have to teach a person not to sin not the other way around?
The teachings of Christ, whether you believe in Christ or not is irrelevant for this point, do not portray life as something where you do the “right” thing out of fear of judgment. You are to have a certain common sense fear about the coming judgment yes, and you are to fear God who will judge all of mankind, but Christ has far more to say about love than he did hell.
My wife knows I love her and I doubt she has ever thought that I only love her or act lovingly towards her (i.e. in your words don’t lie to her etc) because of the fear of God, that’s just crazy, and I certainly never said that, you did.
The difference here is that I have a specific moral standard to which I live by, and you don’t, by your own admission. Not even sure where you get your standard for “good” people as you call it, how do you know what is “good”, or is it the standard of the day where it’s all relative to your own experience bunk? On that end, there is a objective truth in the world and in humanity, even if you don’t admit it.
Because I have a standard, and it’s laid out clearly in scripture, I know exactly where I stand and why. There are more reasons than just this scripture clearly and overwhelmingly states we are indeed broken and flawed individuals, even if we don’t think so and even if we want to be our own god.
Either way you assume so much it’s amazing, but that is the stereotypical atheist stand. I have run into many atheists who know far more about the Bible and the Christian life than do Christians themselves, but that doesn’t mean they are right, just on the defensive.
You say,
“Either way you assume so much it’s amazing, but that is the stereotypical atheist stand. I have run into many atheists who know far more about the Bible and the Christian life than do Christians themselves, but that doesn’t mean they are right, just on the defensive.”
Stereotypical atheist stand? I have met thousands of atheists and haven’t come across a “stereotypical” stand so for you to state this is simply ludicrous. There are liberal atheists, there are conservative atheists, there are moderate atheists. The point is, we run the gamut of views and opinions but you out yourself as an intolerant bigot who sees all atheists as one person.
I will state you are correct in that most, not all, atheists certainly know the bible and most religions better than the people than claim to practice and subscribe to the tenets. This is precisely how many came to the atheist worldview. The bible, properly read, is the most potent force for converting one to atheism.
As for atheists being on the defensive, if we are it is because we have been under attack for centuries just as you have attacked me as being without moral guidance because I don’t use a 2000 year old book written by misogynistic, torturous, abusive white men as my guide in life. Call me silly. I would rather follow my community guidelines and the social parameters of the good of society rather than what man thought was best for man based on a nomadic existence in the desert.
Christians don’t seem to have a good compass on the moral good for homosexuals do they? Christians don’t have a good moral compass on what is right for any group of humans they see as “others” hmm, such as myself. I shall not subjugate myself to any man. Atheists and humanists, on the other hand, see basic human rights and civil liberties as necessary for ALL. We don’t pick and choose a silly bible verse to justify denying services and rights to gays because some homophobic man wrote “man shall not lie with man”
You aren’t even aware that the christ character is a fiction made to teach parables and lessons from a compilation of stories and people. How sad for you. Provide me with ONE piece of extra-biblical evidence that this person existed. Just one!