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”
@Ellen once again, you just don’t get it. I don’t care whether you are a homosexual, living with a “life partner”, married to a person of the opposite sex, or want to marry an ape… none of this was ever directed at you personally, but that is what you see, yourself, everything is about you.
Cultures are different even within the U.S. obviously… you say “partner” when referring to a relationship in this part of the country it only means one single thing, nothing else. I didn’t say I don’t acknowledge it CAN mean something else, I am just saying if I took 500 people off the street and asked them what it meant I bet 499 would say it meant their gay partner.
Mr. Taylor, your points are not even worth addressing except to say that if it took me to make you a stronger “believer” than perhaps you need to re-think your faith.
Any believer can juxtapose their beliefs on a proposition and say,”see I told you it would be so”
Simply look to Nostradamus.
If I have made you feel better, so glad to hear it. But, I didn’t prove the bible to be true. You simply apply whatever you hear and make it that way. If that is what you need to do to get along in life, that is a rather tenuous position.
Someone could say that all the statements make the Lord of the Rings true. Does that make Frodo real? Perhaps to some. Myself, I prefer real tangible evidence.
Yes, I signed in with my full name. That didn’t give you the right to use my first name without invitation. I guess your parents didn’t teach you common courtesy along with your scripture.
And again, my name is NOT Ellen. If you are going to be so presumptuous as to address me by my first name, at least get it right.
Yes, of course, everything is about me. That is why I so vigorously defend the rights of others- gays.
You accuse me of being narrow-minded when saying partner can ONLY mean one thing when you saw right here today it was used by a heterosexual? Do you think I came up with this on the spot? Thanks for the credit.
I’m not concerned so much about those showing their immaturity as a Christian in a more tolerant denomination or community; it’s the Christian groups that explicitly expect this attitude, or that implicitly encourage it, who worry me. Perhaps they should worry you even more. I’ve often thought that if Christianity were to disappear from the face of the Earth in modern times (a most unlikely scenario), then the faith would probably be remembered largely for its virulent homophobia.
More likely, I think, is the continued evolution of this and other religions around the world, adjusting themselves to our sometimes gradual improvements in moral precepts and understanding. The Ten Commandments are often touted as a great moral law, yet who does so while fully aware that human slavery is accepted by them? You should not covet your neighbor’s male or female slaves. That’s the best that people think a superhuman divine intelligence could come up with? Wow.
People are capable of so much more, of being better than the holy books most of us around the world today place our trust in!
It’s sad to see people tell themselves that if it weren’t for the Bible, they would not have any way to figure out right from wrong. Like someone taught to use a crutch being afraid to set it aside when it’s no longer needed (if it ever was), they limit themselves by sticking to old habits out of fear. It may be fear of hell, fear of backsliding, fear of losing one’s bearings, fear of having to pretend you are your own god, fear of social penalties, or any other number of concerns–some reasonable, some completely irrational or based on negative propaganda about the “out” group of unbelievers.
Sorry about the length, but I do not have time to shorten it. I really just wanted to say a few words about the following:
“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”
Let’s think about this.
To an extent we are all reliant on ourselves, and to an extent we all rely on others. These are not mutually exclusive. We may even rely on abstractions and beliefs. I find it troubling to see any false dichotomy promulgated in the name of truth, as it obscures the truth instead of clarifying it.
It sounds to me like this expression is interpreting a typically complex approach (one that is neither 100% self-reliant nor 100% dependent on others) as an either-or proposition: Either you rely on “God” or else you are relying on yourself alone. But that’s fundamentally inaccurate. It mistakenly paints everyone who does not share a particular worldview with the same broad brush. I’m sure you find it less than helpful when someone assumes negative things about you based on a stereotype. This is quite similar. Too many assumptions, and not enough listening.
Result: Dogma.
What makes it worse is when the assumptions are quoted from a holy book granted a specially presumed authority, as if there is no room for error. Then even people who are otherwise very reasonable and compassionate will slip into the trap of accepting their own assumptions without realizing that this is what they are. Because if “God” said it, or inspired it, or otherwise makes some happy guarantee of authenticity–well, who is going to question that if they truly believe it?
On the other hand, seeing religion as one product on our human search for meaning and understanding helps to ameliorate that kind of erroneously absolutist thinking. So many people feel safe repeating what they imagine to be divinely revealed that they forget to ask the questions they would naturally ask when they are making an effort to think for themselves, to acknowledge the potential for error, to allow for all the complexities of real life which a Koran, Bible, or other scriptural shortcut often does not even touch on in a clear, meaningful way.
Well, that’s enough for one day. Maybe for a whole week!
“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.”
This goes back to the “true scottsman argument”
The language you spew against them, SCOTT, is no different, sorry to burst your bubble. You simply couch it in more flowery terms but it is hate speech nonetheless. You do think these gay couples that go to your church are going to hell, do you not? Are they aware of your beliefs? Are they aware of what you say about them? You call them sinners and immoral.