The coming into the world of God's Son was the personification of God's love. His love is beyond anything we can possibly describe or even fully understand as He sent His only Son for the specific purpose of eventual "Holy scars" that we might have life and life abundant.
Our world is full of fragile and even fickle loves - love that fades, love that abandons, love that divorces, love that is self-seeking. All the more reason we as worshippers should have an inextinguishable love for Him within our amazed hearts, in seeing God's perfect love and wonders. That kind of love and worship survives any circumstance or situation in our lives. Our love and worship response will not allow itself to be quenched no matter what happens to us in the living of life. The Bible is full of characters who loved Him in that way, who become examples for us.
Even non-Biblical characters give us hints. Fanny Crosby was only eight years old when she penned the following words: "O what a happy soul am I! Although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I will be. How many blessings I enjoy, that other people don't. To weep and sigh because I'm blind, I cannot, and I won't."
This contented worshipper went on to write some 8,000 hymns of praise. Those thousands of songs were the result of a heart that burned for Jesus and could not be put out. She once told someone, "The good thing about being blind is that the very first face I'll see will be the face of Jesus." Some would have chosen a path of bitterness as their response to God; she chose love and worship.
I love the Psalms. The Psalms have been described as both "praise in the presence and in the absence of God." Our worship should survive every situation or circumstance in our lives. Whatever trials await us, we should always have a song of undying, unquenchable worship on our lips. mjm
Love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as
the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty
flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers can-
not wash it away. (Song of Songs 8:6,7).
