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”
@Rob i understand your viewpoint, and no, it was certainly not meant as a taunt, I actually mis-read (i.e. misunderstood) your previous comment. That is the inherent problem with communicating via email or having a discussion over a threaded comment, so much is lost in translation that sometimes what is said is actually not what is meant.
The phrase “claiming to be their own god” is an expression of one who is reliant or dependent on oneself rather than acknowledging the limits of our own human mind but it comes directly from many places in scripture where, for example, the Israelites trusted in their own understanding instead of God, and hence scripture says they were their own god. That is just one example but there are many throughout scripture (mostly the Old Testament) which uses that expression.
You asked who does this… we all do this, myself included. Whenever I put my own self ahead of [fill in the blank] i am saying i am more important.
As for the “partner” remark, that may not have been the most well put thought, but if you are heterosexual, then why refer to a person as your “partner” and not “boyfriend” or “girlfriend”. I understand the semantics here but “partner” more times than not is referring to a homosexual couple. It was an assumption, perhaps a poor one, but it wasn’t that big of a leap to take.
As for your comments about faith and proof, for the most part I agree… and one of my favorite verses is Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Unlike math, it’s not an exact science, was never meant to be, Christ meant faith to be something that came from the heart, which I why I love the ambiguity (some would say) of Heb 11:1 🙂
Ms. Wachs,
First, my apologies for referring to you by the name you signed and claimed to be.
Secondly, I sincerely thank you today. You have strengthened my faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible in ways you cannot imagine.
You have proved the Bible to me.
You have made it very clear that you believe Christianity is foolishness, and have proved 1 Corinthians 1:18 which says that the Gospel is foolishness to those who are lost and perishing.
Do you not fear God Ms. Wachs? Of course not, you dare not say otherwise for that would be admitting that you are not an atheist which you do and have claimed to be. Either way, you have proven Romans 3:18, which predicted you would not fear God.
You have proven the Bible to be true.
Every word you speak and everything you do confirms the Bible. Do you believe in the Ten Commandments? I know that you don’t. Then the Bible predicts you will probably engage in immorality. You’re immorality proves the Bible.
One of the reasons I believe the Bible to be true is that everything in life that I experience conforms exactly with what it says I will see and experience.
Thank you “Ms. Wachs” for making me a stronger believer every time you have opened your mouth. You have made me a stronger believer, and I thank you for proving the Bible to me.
You are being quite defensive about being wrong about my heterosexuality. John is my partner in life. It was a term chosen deliberately and quite well-thought out. He is not a “boy” therefore not my “boyfriend” and to use that term is both patronizing and limiting. It is your narrow worldview and limiting ideals that made you jump to the conclusion that I was a lesbian simply because I use partner to describe him rather than the normative religious terms.
Can you possibly answer a question in your own words without resorting to scripture? Is that within the realm of possibility?
I don’t use “partner” myself for intimate personal relationships, tending to reserve it for more businesslike partnerships. It doesn’t sound odd to me, however, living in an urban environment where one is likely to encounter more instances of variation in language when other people choose that term. Likewise, an Alabama accent doesn’t sound odd to me, either, given eight years in which to become accustomed to its nuances and variations. Anyway, I see Ms. Wachs was rather more succinct on the matter.
So what do you think when you see other Christians saying terrible things about how gay teens brought their suicide onto themselves by sinning, because they deserve to be called demeaning names if they dare to vocalize their own feelings, even wishing that they would all get AIDS and die? And not just any Christian, but one elected to serve as a member of the school board!
Does this affect your view at all about the value of trumpeting belief in the Bible as a moral guide?
@Rob the acts you describe are despicable to say the least… I would no sooner wish someone get a horrible disease because of a sin (or for whatever reason). Punishment or judgment (which I am not saying it is) is clearly something better left to God to decide… if I can use a biblical story, the story of Jesus and the prostitute (which was most likely a setup) came down to Jesus saying, let him who has no sin throw the first stone.
Ellen in her previous comments assumes sooooo much, to much to really address. It’s not like we down here in podunk Alabama live in some kind of a vacuum and are never exposed to a different way of life. We have homosexual couples that go to our church, i have filled a passport traveling to countries all over the world, experiencing different cultures and customs, we don’t just live in a box (though i was not insinuating that you said we do). Though we do call people by their first name, even if we have never met before, but usually it is Ms Ellen or Mr Scott or Mr Rob, which would be the nuance in language we have. 🙂
Other Christians that say things like that are indeed showing their immaturity as a Christian perhaps, but like someone else said, don’t just assume all Christians speak for each other, there are as many different viewpoints as there are Christians. That type of hateful language has no place in our church whatsoever, and I know it doesn’t in countless others as well.