Hello my family.
I am a record keeper. This is a confession. I tend to keep records of wrongs. If someone is unkind to me, or just in a bad mood and snippy to me, I put an imaginary chalk mark in my imaginary column. That’s a point for me in the “Who’s Better than Whom Competition.”
God is calling me to a higher place, and the things I am seeing about myself on the way up are just horrible. Things I’ve always kind of known, and made excuses for, or “intended” to work on, they just keep showing up like acts in a play. It’s a terrible play. I hope nobody paid to see it.
I want to love with God’s love. God’s love does not keep a record of wrongs. The King James version of 1st Corinthians 13:5 says that love “is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.” But I like some of the other versions better. The NIV versions says love “is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
This thing I do, this record keeping, has got to go if I want to love others in God. God will just have none of that. So how do I stop something that is so imbedded in my nature?
The answer is in the same verse that I quoted in my last email:
1st Thessalonians 5: “23And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. “
That’s is always the answer. We rest in God, in His faithfulness, and He completes the work that He started.” I am so grateful for One Who doesn’t keep a record of my wrongs, Who loves me without condition. God has been with me, faithfully, for all these years, and His love has never faltered. My hope is sure, because God is sure.
I love you all.
Amy
P. S. If you have about 8 minutes, this song is so good. I just keep playing it.
This version is the full length of the song and the end part is so good, I wouldn’t want anyone to miss it.
But if you only have 4 minutes. This version is shorter and the video is better.
Weathered
After all that we’ve been through
Tell me how I’m supposed to function without You
You’ve seen my heart be worn and used
You didn’t leave, instead You stayed and made me new
How sweet it is to trust You, Jesus
To know You, I mean really know You
Father, Son, and Holy Shepherd
A love so deep, it can’t be measured
A love that’s real
A love that’s weathered
I could never count the times
You stayed faithful while my heart was compromised
You held me close each time I cried
When the last thing I deserved was sacrifice
How sweet it is to trust You, Jesus
To know You, I mean really know You
Father, Son, and Holy Shepherd
A love so deep it can’t be measured
A love that’s real, mm-mm
A love that’s weathered
More than skin and bone can offer
You’re consistent through and through
Other love’s just imitations
It cannot compare to You
Deeper than infatuation
Than the rush of something new
This is soul inhabitation
You’re in me and I’m in You
More than skin and bone can offer
You’re consistent through and through
Other love’s just imitations
It cannot compare to You
Deeper than infatuation
Than the rush of something new
This is soul inhabitation
You’re in me and I’m in You, oh
How sweet it is to trust You, Jesus
To know You, I mean really know You
Father, Son, and Holy Shepherd
A love so deep, it can’t be measured
A love that’s real
A love that’s weathered
A love that’s weathered
A love that’s weathered
Hey
Unconditional
Consistent, never changing
A love that’s weathered
Oh, it calls you higher
He calls you higher
He can make you whole
Hey, He can heal the wounds
Oh, oh, He’s not afraid
He’s not afraid
Oh, it’s a jealous love
He’s always pursuing, always pursuing
He’s not running away
He’s tried and true
Oh, He’s tried and true
It’s a jealous love, it’s a jealous love
Oh, He’s jealous for us
He’s not leaving you where He found you
He’s calling you higher
He’s not leaving you how He found you
Hey, oh, He’s calling you higher
Come up here, come up now
Come up here, come up now
It’s a love that calls you higher, oh, oh
This is the love of God
Always pursuing
He’s never letting you go, no
He’s not letting you go, hey
This is the love of God
It’s always pursuing
He’s not letting you go
Just hold on, He’s not letting you go
Oh, yeah
Let it flow, let the love of God flow, hey
How sweet it is to trust You, Jesus
To know You, I mean really know You
Father, Son, and Holy Shepherd
A love so deep, it can’t be measured
A love that’s real
A love that’s weathered, yeah
A love that’s real
A love that’s weathered