Shadow Of His Love

"I Just Want To Stay In The Shadow Of Your Love"

What would such a shadow look like?
Would I readily recognize it?
Would it be familiar to my eyes?
I think maybe the shadow of God's love

would be in the shape of a cross.

Isn't it weird how something so horrible

could be view as the ultimate symbol of love.

Pain...
Humiliation...

The reduction of a life to nothing more than

human rubble.

Yet every act that took place on the cross of Christ

Defined what real love was.

In the shadow of the love of Christ,

I find out exactly how shallow my love is.

I find out how selfish my love is.

I am made painfully aware of how divine love

has the power to undo the darkness of this world.

I am the recipient of such a love.

If such love does in fact exist...

then how could we, as mere mortals, not be changed

when we come in contact with it?
How could we not be transformed by this love that

fills shadows every where?

A love that seeks out the darkness of the human heart

to bring real life...

true life...

abundant life...

eternal life...

Me?
My part is to simply receive it.

To recognize the futility of living outside the boundaries of 

this divine love...

and accept this wonderful gift of love from the Father.

Then...

I can move into the shadow of His love.

Psalm 91:1

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Sometimes, and for whatever reason,

we view darkness and shadows as evil...

Accept this free gift of love from God

and move into the shadows of His love.

Experience for yourself the richness of His love..

God on you...

mb