Linnette Visits "Believing Out Loud"

A Life-changing Romance

Scanning through my blog, I run across a video I posted of Steve Camp’s song, “Love That Will Not Let Me Go”. As I listen, God’s love pours into my heart and overflows into unimaginable freedom, and happiness.

In this weary world,

Chasing after dreams

Just led me back where I started

I couldn’t see my way

Or find a hiding place

For the broken-hearted

You spoke softly to my soul

And with one touch I was made whole

Chorus:

There is a love that will not let me go

I can face tomorrow because You hold me forever

Stronger than the mighty winds that blow

I’m safe within Your arms

Love that will not let me go

Lord You always knew

The road that I would take

But then you saved me just in time

And what I owe to You

I could not repay

So I pledge You my whole life

Never trusted love before

But I won’t be afraid anymore

Chorus:

Now I know that there is a love that will not let me go

I can face tomorrow because You hold me forever

Stronger than the mighty winds that blow

I’m safe within Your arms

Love that will not let me go

~ Steve Camp, Doing My Best album

I know these feelings of ecstasy won’t last forever. Life’s trials will come in and sweep them away much too easily, but for the moment I’m soaking it all in and praying that this sprouting of hope and deep abiding joy will take root. You see, God has been challenging me on a particular malady of the heart for a long time and I think I have finally - maybe, begun to grasp what he’s been trying to teach me.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”

~ Luke 14:25, ESV

Wow! That seems super extreme – especially for this loyal-to-a-fault kind of girl. What can Jesus possibly mean? His Word tells us over and over again to love one another as he loves us, so it can’t possibly mean I am to actually hate my family, can it? ...

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