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”
Good grief, I would hardly even know where to begin with all that.
You saying Christ was a fictional character has been vetted throughout history and there are very few scholarly people (that actually do know what they are talking about) that would hold to this view, Christian, Jew, Muslim, whoever, the historical evidence of Christ is only questioned by those like you who have an agenda to prove. Even the Roman guards collaborated many of Jesus’ existence. There are many extra-biblical references I could use, like Josephus and others, but this is an old argument you bring up, and with little validity.
you said “The bible, properly read, is the most potent force for converting one to atheism.” is about the most absurd statement I have read in recent years. Obviously your “properly” read is different than mine is. I have read, studied, and contemplated over scripture. I have read the entire bible, from Genesis to Revelation many times, and (if you have?) there is the antithesis of atheism proclaimed throughout the bible.
As to homosexuality, I can’t believe it took you three comments before you brought up that topic (although mentioning your “partner” earlier was the launching platform for your gay rant). You show yourself to be as narrow minded as you claim I am by calling me a bigot. If following the standards of scripture make one a bigot than I guess I am guilty, but check your history books, the Bible wasn’t written by “white people”. For the rest of the homosexual gay discussion I will refer you to my post called “Prop 8 Proves Homosexual Lifestyle Acceptable to God” at http://www.scottfillmer.com/2010/08/15/prop-8-proves-homosexual-lifestyle-acceptable-to-god/ and be sure to read all 50+ comments so you get the point. Say what you want, a homosexual lifestyle is a sin in the eyes of God, it’s as clear in scripture as the sun is bright.
There is a difference between being a bigot and living by a moral standard is where you are confused. You confuse people who “hate” because of one reason or another with someone who understands that there are some things that are wrong and some that are right. You may live by your “community standards” but where do they get their standards from? Where does society get their standards from that you live by. Almost all the laws in place in this country come from scripture? Like not stealing, murder, etc etc. It’s pretty hilarious actually… your standard of living is actually God’s standard, you just won’t admit to it.
As you say there are many different mind sets within atheism, there are within Christianity as well, and yes, many times, Christians do not live by the standards they uphold as righteous, but that goes back to my first point, we are all sinners in need of a Savior.
I don’t know where to begin with you!! All the laws in this country do NOT come from scripture. A ten year old could do better than the 10 commandments. As a matter of fact, child rape is not even mentioned now is it?
Just a question regarding Josephus- when was he born? Not a contemporary of the jesus character. I could write about the santa and it doesn’t prove his existence. Sorry! You lose. One piece of evidence! NOT ONE! Josephus is not evidence. Been thoroughly vetted? Hardly. For a character that was supposed to have been a prolific teacher- not one piece of writing has been found, not one piece of archeological evidence to support the existence if this myth. Next you will bring up Eusebius. Check.
If I am living by god’s standards, which god would that be sir? There are about 30,000 of them? I know, your answer will be the ONE TRUE GOD!!! It is the answer for every different religion. How does that work?
Homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of god? I have NO problem calling you a bigot. You are an outright homophobic bigot. A bigot towards atheists. A bigot towards non-christians. Whereas I could not give a flying fig that you believe in an invisible alien that monitors your thoughts and influences your actions. I will still treat you equally under the law whereas YOU will deny basic human rights to others. That says it all.
BIGOT!
You are surprised it took me 3 posts to get to the homosexual rant? Sounds as if you are quite defensive on the issue as you well should be. YOU have no moral right to be so intolerant. You are despicable. I don’t care if you want to be so reprehensible in your own little narrow mind but you and your christian brethren are attempting to legislate your religious biblical intolerance on society and society will not tolerate your breathtaking hatred that allows teenagers to get bullied into killing themselves, that keeps families apart when loved ones are dying in the hospital; that denies mothers and fathers the right to shared custody of their children.
And no, I am not a sinner in need of any saviour and do not believe we are inherently sinners. That is your christian concept. You, however, do need a saviour but not of the godlike kind. You need one of the humankind to teach you compassion to others who may be different.
Oh, thanks to Monica for these-
Here are 11 things that are technically banned by the Bible. (All quotes are translations from the New American Standard Bible, but, because I’m actually trying to maintain serious journalistic integrity here, I cross-referenced several other translations to make sure I wasn’t missing the point.)
1. Round haircuts. See you in Hell, Beatles… and/or kids with bowl cuts, surfer cuts or (my favorite) butt cuts. Leviticus 19:27 reads “You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.”
2. Football. At least, the pure version of football, where you play with a pigskin. The modern synthetic footballs are ugly and slippery anyways. Leviticus 11:8, which is discussing pigs, reads “You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.”
And you’re doubly breaking that if you wake up, eat some sausage then go throw around the football. Or go to the county fair and enter a greased pig catching contest.
3. Fortune telling. Before you call a 900 number (do people still call 900 numbers, by the way?), read your horoscope or crack open a fortune cookie, realize you’re in huge trouble if you do.
Leviticus 19:31 reads “Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.” The penalty for that? Check Leviticus 20:6: “As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.”
Seems like a lifetime of exile is a pretty harsh penalty for talking to Zoltar.
4. Pulling out. The Bible doesn’t get too much into birth control… it’s clearly pro-populating but, back when it was written, no one really anticipated the condom or the sponge, so those don’t get specific bans.
But… pulling out does. One of the most famous sexual-oriented Bible verses… the one that’s used as anti-masturbation rhetoric… is actually anti-pulling out.
It’s Genesis 38:9-10: “Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also.”
Yep — pull out and get smote. That’s harsh.
5. Tattoos. No tattoos. Leviticus 19:28 reads, “You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.”
Not even a little butterfly on your ankle. Or Thug Life across your abdomen. Or even, fittingly enough, a cross.
6. Polyester, or any other fabric blends. The Bible doesn’t want you to wear polyester. Not just because it looks cheap. It’s sinfully unnatural.
Leviticus 19:19 reads, “You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together.”
Check the tag on your shirt right now. Didn’t realize you were mid-sin at this exact second, did you? (Unless you checked the tag by rolling off your neighbor’s wife while you two were having anal sex in the middle of robbing a blind guy. Then your Lycra-spandex blend is really the least of your problems.)
7. Divorce. The Bible is very clear on this one: No divorcing. You can’t do it. Because when you marry someone, according to Mark 10:8, you “are no longer two, but one flesh.” And, Mark 10:9 reads, “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Mark gets even more hardcore about it a few verses later, in Mark 10:11-12, “And He said to them, ‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.’”
8. Letting people without testicles into church. Whether you’ve been castrated or lost one or two balls to cancer isn’t important. The Bible doesn’t get that specific. It just says you can’t pray.
Deuteronomy 23:1 reads (this is the God’s Word translation, which spells it out better), “A man whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off may never join the assembly of the Lord.”
Oh, and the next verse says that if you’re a bastard, the child of a bastard… or even have a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchild of a bastard, you can’t come to church or synagogue either. Deuteronomy 23:2 reads, “No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.”
9. Wearing gold. 1 Timothy 2:9 doesn’t like your gold necklace at all. Or your pearl necklace. Or any clothes you’re wearing that you didn’t get from Forever 21, Old Navy or H&M.
“Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments.”
10. Shellfish. Leviticus 11:10 reads, “But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you.” And shellfish is right in that wheelhouse.
Leviticus 11 bans a TON of animals from being eaten (it’s THE basis for Kosher law); beyond shellfish and pig, it also says you can’t eat camel, rock badger, rabbit, eagle, vulture, buzzard, falcon, raven, crow, ostrich, owl, seagull, hawk, pelican, stork, heron, bat, winged insects that walk on four legs unless they have joints to jump with like grasshoppers (?), bear, mole, mouse, lizard, gecko, crocodile, chameleon and snail.
Sorry if that totally ruins your plans to go to a rock badger eat-off this weekend.
11. Your wife defending your life in a fight by grabbing your attacker’s genitals. No joke. Deuteronomy actually devotes two verses to this exact scenario: Deuteronomy 25:11-12.
“If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.”
That’s impossible to misinterpret. Ladies, if your husband is getting mugged, make sure to kick the mugger in the pills. Do not do the grip and squeeze (no matter what “Miss Congeniality” might advise). Or your hand needs to be cut off.
As a final note, I know that nine of these 11 cite the Old Testament, which Christianity doesn’t necessarily adhere to as law.
To which I say: If you’re going to ignore the section of Leviticus that bans about tattoos, pork, shellfish, round haircuts, polyester and football, how can you possibly turn around and quote Leviticus 18:22 (“You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”) as irrefutable law?
But that’s me trying to introduce logic to religious fanaticism (or, at least, trying to counter some mix of ignorance, bigotry and narcissism with logic). And I should probably know better.
Your right, I’m sorry, I am so intolerant of views other than my own that I actually keep approving your messages on my own blog because your views are so similar to mine.
As for your personal attacks on my character, it’s typical… (and you call yourself “tolerant” ha). You are so sure i am such a hateful homophobic bigot, and yet you know nothing about me personally. I don’t know if there is one person who actually knows me who would say that is true, but of course you know the “real me”. Just because I think unrepentant sin, like choosing to live a gay lifestyle, is wrong, doesn’t make me a homophobic any more than saying unrepentant sin, like adultery in marriage, makes me a afraid of adulterers???
You did get one thing right though, there is but only one single true God, though it is rather comical that you call yourself an atheist and yet say there are 30,000 gods.
Your assumptions show your true character. You can blame all your atheistic and gay problems on the Christian if you like, but there are far more people in this country who don’t want to see either of those agendas advanced than there are that do, and it has nothing to do with “tolerance” or human rights. There is a total and complete difference between civil rights, which all human beings should have, and “gay rights”. Just because gay rights people have blinded some to think they are “civil” rights similar to those of African Americans doesn’t make it so. There is a huge difference, but that’s a whole different subject.
Where you have gone way off the deep end is this hatred effect you seem to think all Christians have bread into them. A true follower of Christ will show love to all people and do their very best to become more Christ-like throughout his/her life. Somewhere down the line you think because Christians are opposed to certain things they are opposed to certain people, and this is flat wrong.
I am not the one spewing hate here, check your previous comments, you are the one with total disgust for a whole segment of the population, which pretty much makes you everything you claimed to dislike in me. I find that sad, but also pretty funny at the same time. You have a double standard but one without a moral base to know the actual truth, and you are blinded to the actual truth. You can thumb your nose at me in disgust but one day, whether you think so now or not, you will have to answer for your non-belief. Maybe before that time your eyes will be opened and you will see your sinful ways and ask for forgiveness, but until then, you might want to look at how contradictory your own statements are. Even within your own comments you betray yourself and your self proclaimed homosexual atheism.
I will still pray for you regardless.
@Oh, thanks to Monica for these
You must have the atheist playbook that says go to step 1 and say this, go to step 2 and say that… this is so predictable and so ignorant to say the least…
In reply to that whole post on the OT… you are missing the big giant picture of Christ. Do you understand WHY Christians celebrate worship on Sunday and not the Sabbath (which is actually on Saturday)? Do you know why we eat pork now and they were not supposed to during the OT times? Christ had not come yet (among many other reasons).
I have no problem with a Christian getting a tattoo any more than I have a problem with my delicious pull pork on Saturday while watching football. You just don’t get it.
Christ changes that, and hopefully one day you will get it.