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”
@EllenBethWachs good night, you are basically saying if you disagree with something today it should be called hate speech, sorry, wrong, there is a right and wrong, if someone is speaking the a truth i find it hard to call it hate speech, i call it the truth, but no one wants to hear the truth anymore.
Whether someone is going to hell or not has nothing at all to do with whether they are gay or straight, this shows your outright misunderstanding of what the gospel says.
I personally don’t know if a person is going to hell or not, I can only be sure of my own salvation, only God can truly read what’s in a person’s heart. The gay couples in our church are very aware of our biblical beliefs and where we stand as a church. They are limited in some aspects of what they can do or participate in, just in the exact same way an openly adulterous couple would be, but those specifics are very limited anyway. Some have chosen to stay, some have not. They are welcome regardless.
The problem here is you don’t see all sin as being equal. There are people in our church who lie, who commit adultery, and who are homosexual, etc. You said I call them sinners, no joke, I also called myself that, along with the human race. The difference in lying and homosexuality or adultery (which by the way are very similar) is that the last two are unrepentant continual lifestyles of sin. That doesn’t mean i don’t like them as people or that they are not welcome in our church, and it doesn’t necessarily mean they are or aren’t going to hell or heaven.
@Scott:
Do you believe it is right to send homosexuals to hell for just being homosexuals? Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?
@Jaime
Q. Do you believe it is right to send homosexuals to hell for just being homosexuals?
A. it’s not up to me to determine who does and who doesn’t go to hell, the question itself is flawed because salvation is not determined according to a specific sin
Q. Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?
A. there is no scientific evidence at all (other than the same evidence scientists use to prove global warming exists) that say it is anything other than a choice, but besides that argument, yes, obviously i would believe sin is a choice, all sin is a choice, yet we all sin, and we can all repent of our sin as well.
@Scott:
1) No, there’s nothing flawed about it. I didn’t ask you if it was up to you to determine, only if you believed homosexuality was suitable grounds for eternal torture. I gotta say, I’m not impressed by your mental gymnastics to avoid answering questions. It’s quite dishonest and prevents any purposeful progress in any dialog.
2) Sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment. How can homosexuals be held responsible for being such since it is their biology which made them that way and not their minds?
@Jaime I thought I was pretty direct but why should i answer your questions when i know what your response is going to be, it’s fruitless and i really shouldn’t have answered either of those questions anyway, knowing they were basically a trap into your next step.
I could have written your “biological in nature” answer myself, i knew that was on it’s way, but regardless, there is zero substantial proof that it is biological in nature, that’s just an excuse. Our culture is so scientifically advanced now that we can find a “biological” nature for anything. Your scientific “proof” is about as good as Darwin’s is to evolution and Al Gore’s “award winning” planet earth video is to global warming.
Sorry, you can say that, but it doesn’t make it correct, and very few objective minds hold the “biological” nature of homosexuality to be true, other than homosexuals of course.