Priority Love

This week I've been asking God to give me more of a "top priority" love for Him.

Okay, total truth is, I've been listening to Beth Moore teach on loving God, and, goodness, if the passion of that woman didn't convict my heart of my own lack of love for Him.

"I want it, God," I told Him.  "I want that first place, passionate, priority love for you."

My husband wakens himself with a clock radio on a local Christian station a full 20 minutes before he needs to get up and a full 50 minutes before I want to get up.  Ugh.  It's amazing, though, how many times I'm jolted awake too early by a song that seems to speak to me right where I am.

And this weekend was no exception.

Through sleepy ears I heard God's loving message to me:

Take a look at the mountains
Stretching a mile high
Take a look at the ocean
Far as your eye can see
And think of Me

Take a look at the desert
Do you feel like a grain of sand?
I am with you wherever
Where you go is where I am

And I'm always thinking of you
Take a look around you
I'm spelling it out one by one

I love you more than the sun
And the stars that I taught how to shine
You are mine, and you shine for me too
I love you yesterday and today
And tomorrow, I'll say it again and again
I love you more

Just a face in the city
Just a tear on a crowded street
But you are one in a million
And you belong to Me

And I want you to know

That I'm not letting go

Even when you come undone

I love you more than the sun
And the stars that I taught how to shine
You are mine, and you shine for me too
I love you yesterday and today
And tomorrow, I'll say it again and again
I love you more
I love you more

And I see you
And I made you
And I love you more than you can imagine
More than you can fathom

Oh, wow, God.  There's nothing like a reminder of your love to me to light my heart in response with love to you.

"We love Him because He first loved us."

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