Love Reaches.

A new song has grabbed my attention and become my new favorite (this week).

It’s by a guy named Peter Furler, and while his name wasn’t familiar to me before, his voice is… He’s the former lead singer of the Newsboys.

This song comes on and I have to sing it. If I’m in my car, I belt it out. If I’m in my office, I just hope for their sake nobody is in earshot. Not that that would stop me, because I’m afraid I lose myself in this song with the self-abandonment of a drunk at a karaoke bar.

If I have come to know anything about God recently, it’s that He doesn’t just love me passively… He reaches for me.

That’s LOVE: active. A verb.

It’s patience when you’ve been difficult. It’s kindness when you’ve been mean.

Love endures a lot from you. Love always hopes for the best out of you. Love never gives up, even when you do. Love never keeps score of your sins (even when you’re quick to keep score of the sins of others) and never, ever gloats while you grovel in them.

God loves me, and I know this because over and over, in all of those ways, He reaches for me.
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You hold the weight of the world
Still I don’t slip through your hands
Your love is bigger
Than just an ocean built by man

I fall again and again
But you whisper you’re still mine.
You feel the pain of the world
But you never push mine aside.

Chorus:
And you reach for me
With a love that quiets all my fears
And you reach for me
Like a father wipes away the tears

So many people in this world
But I hear you calling out my name.
You reach for me.
Now I’m never gonna be the same.

You know all of my fears
There’s nothing your eyes can’t see.
When i tried to give up
Lord you never gave up on me.

I give you all of my hopes and dreams
I lay them down.
Of all the place I’ve looked
You’re the one truth I have found.

Chorus:
And you reach for me
With a love that quiets all my fears
And you reach for me
Like a father wipes away the tears

So many people in this world
But i hear you calling out my name.
You reach for me.
Now i’m never gonna be the same.

Bridge:
You hold the weight of the world
Still I don’t slip through your hands.
You put the stars in the sky.
You know every grain of sand.

Chorus:
But you reach for me
With a love that quiets all my fears.
And you reach for me
Like a father wipes away the tears.

So many people in this world
But I hear you calling out my name.
You reach for me.
Now I’m never gonna be the same.

You reach for me.
For me.