love. love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. love your neighbor as yourself. the first and second greatest commandments given to man.
there are many different types of love, but the one i want to talk about is a love shared between spouses or people in a relationship. it’s interesting how people define love. i’ve come across many definitions in my life, and to many of them, i can agree. when i think of this particular kind of love, what pops into my head may be sacrificing my time, sacrificing my desires, putting my loved one’s interest ahead of my own, giving gifts, offering words of affirmation and encouragement, being sensitive, understanding, and empathetic in times of despair…of which all are beautiful pictures of what love looks like in a relationship.
ever since i entered middleschool, i’ve had an image in my head of what one of the possibilities of love looks like in a relationship. that is to be in comfortable silence with each other…where you can just sit with that person, not say a single word, and still be comfortable. you just sit and enjoy that person’s company.
Jesus, Lover of my soul,
Jesus, I will never let you go
You’ve taken me from the miry clay
You’ve set my feet upon the Rock, and now i know
I love you, I need you,
Though my world may fall, I’ll never let you go
My Saviour, my closest friend,
I will worship you until the very end
i love Jesus with every fiber of my being. it’s just awesome that Jesus loves us the way we love our spouse or significant other. i often don’t know how to express my love toward Jesus. it seems much harder to express our love toward someone who isn’t as tangible as a human being. and i am definitely in a relationship with him.
so it was put on my heart for the last 12 hours…i will learn to just enjoy the company of Jesus in silence. it’s something i have always viewed as beautiful in a human relationship…so how much more tangible would it be to apply it toward my relationship with Jesus? often times, when i want to spend time with Jesus, i feel like i have to talk to Him or sing praises to Him. but i often don’t know what to say to Him. it’s comforting to know that He knows my every thought. i don’t have to have something to talk about with Him. He just wants me to spend time with Him. what a beautiful relationship and picture of love that is!
let my words by few.
You are God in heaven
And here am I on earth
So I’ll let my words be few,
Jesus, I am so in love with You
And I’ll stand in awe of You
Yes, I’ll stand in awe of You
And I’ll let my words be few
Jesus, I am so in love with You
The simplest of all love songs
I want to bring to You
So I’ll let my words be few
Jesus, I am so in love with You
—lyrics were inspired by ecclesiastes 5:2.
“Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few”.
i will love You in comfortable silence.
