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”
wow, you are really indoctrinated.
No, the christ character doesn’t change anything and NO, I will not “get it” one day. I have already gotten it. I am good the way I am. You sir, are the one that needs to “get it”
The fact that you say “you will pray for me” knowing full well I am an atheist demonstrates your total lack of integrity and shows no respect for any position other than your own arrogant one.
That you can be so laughably hypocritical, (love the sinner, hate the sin) is specifically why atheists, secularists, humanists and generally just decent people have a problem with the christian hypocrisy. Of course gay people have civil rights just as every one else does. That you state they don’t outs you for the bigot and homophobe you are. Atheists have the same civil rights and we do get to promote our “gay and atheistic agendas” It the 14th amendment to the US Constitution- in basic terms- Equal Protection under the law.
Yes, I refuse to be “tolerant” of bigots such as yourself that wrap their hatred in religion.
You are being obtuse and purposefully ignorant and totally misconstruing my words when I refer to the 30,000 gods. If you cannot understand that, you certainly have deeper problems than homophobia. And call it what it is. It is homophobia. You can base it on your bible. You can base it on your pastor. It is HOMOPHOBIA, sir, plain and simple. Don’t like the label? Tough shit. Oh. are you going to complain about my language now because that is certainly within the realm of religious hostility. That which is deemed profane is anything that occurs outside the church. The Moral Majority and Focus on the Family have been the impetus behind the indecency and profanity bans.
“A true follower of christ” pulease. I will have to answer for my non-belief? Where is your proof of this? None, nada, zip, zilch. And, frankly, if there were a god that allowed the suffering of the little children that goes on in the world, that god should be the one that has to answer to us.
Oh, and spare me the drivel of original sin.
Oh and I know why you eat pork and follow football and get tattoos, because you cherry pick the bible and only use what you want when it suits you. I get it just fine. It’s christianity-light. It’s all relative to what you want and need for the times we live in.
Ellen,
First of all, let me say how amazed I am at the blind faith you have expressed. You have many opinions, but where are the facts and evidences for your positions?
May I ask you a question? Would you admit that you have limited knowledge? I assume you have enough integrity to admit that you do. Given that, what if God existed outside your sphere of experience and limited knowledge?
My point is this: It is philosophically and logically absurd to state your belief that there is no God, and you have said that. The only one who could possibly say there have been no gods in all of time would be God Himself. You would need absolute knowledge, need to be omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent to make such a statement.
There is no good response to your comments. There are so many incorrect theological issues they are too numerous to address.
The view you have of Christians is sad, and wrong. Much of it is the fault of Christians who mean well but your views are still just plain wrong.
There are Christians who cherry pick scriptures to suit their needs, which is wrong, but it is a lifetime learning process and some are more committed than others.
The “true Christian” argument is a logical fallacy.
Teacher: All Scotsmen enjoy haggis
Student: My uncle is a Scotsman and he doesn’t enjoy haggis
Teacher: Well, all true Scotsmen enjoy haggis
The only thing required to be a Christian is belief that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of the world. Christians come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, cultures, and political parties. There are literally thousands of sects within Christianity; the only thing in common with them all is what I mentioned earlier. You’re setting up a false premise for what it is to be a Christian. This is usually done to filter out people who make the majority look bad. It’s despicable.
Of course you have no good response to my comments because there is simply no legitimate good response.
Yes, you do have so many incorrect theological issues. You pick from the old testament to discriminate but ignore it to eat pork just as one good example.
The view I have of christians is sad but unfortunately, not wrong, as you have just confirmed and cemented it even more deeply as a group of highly rigid, manipulated dogmatic mean-spirited, arrogant self-righteous judgers unable to grant even the most basic civil rights to others they “deem” immoral based upon a book of fiction.