Ya boi's in love! I can't help it...

This is the message behind the song "Fallin' In Love" off my album Intimately Consumed... get you some!

He that has been forgiven much, loves much (Lk 7:47). Jesus said this. It is profoundly true. I have cursed God. I have turned and hardened my heart completely to Him. I have mocked and even hated His people (the Church). I have indulged myself in sinful ways and feasted on the pleasures this world offers us. I have done many things which were completely against God. I offended Him in my sins. After giving my life to Jesus, I started to realize, and come to know more of His love for me. I started to understand that out of all the things I did, He forgave all of them and blotted them out (Is 44:22; Ps 103:12).

After having such a sinful past, I was blown away that He could love someone like me. I was blown away that He could forgive completely, and even choose to forget all that I had done (Is 43:25). I never found this type of love in the world, because His love is unconditional. I found several times over again conditional loves through my years in living for myself, and they never satisfy. They never will satisfy. I was made for something greater and so were you. God Himself, for He is love. He is the unconditional love and acceptance we all long for deep down within our souls. Nothing can replace Him, for there is none like Him, and none but Him. He is God, and He created us for Himself.

I was in my college apartment room while writing the first draft of this song. I was spending time worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ through the form of singing songs to Him. His glorious presence invaded that small room, and my heart was flooded with His loving kindness. I was overwhelmed - He cared so much for me and accepted me for who I was. He loved me despite the many times that I turned and sinned against Him. His love for me remained the same. He cleansed me with His redeeming blood. He stood in my place, so that I might come to know the Father (John 17:3). He became sin for me so that I became the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Cor 5:21). He came to show me what the Father Himself was like. He forgave me completely for all that I had done. Despite all the present things I was struggling with - He loved me in the midst of them. Nothing will separate me from His love (Romans 8). Who does things like this? Who really cares that much? I have found no one, but Jesus in my years of existence. I started to fall in love with Him. After realizing His love for me, I could do nothing and wanted to do nothing other then love Him back with my whole heart.

That night in my apartment room was the very night this song was birthed. Out of understanding and knowing His love for me, I couldn't help but write Him a love song back. The lyrics started pouring out of me. So that's where this song begins... it's a letter from me to Him trying to express how much I love Him. It's a cry from my heart that I would fall deeper in love with Him. He has written me sixty-six books filled with His love for me, I figured I could at least write a song or two telling Him how much I love Him. He is amazing! The greatest commandment Jesus gave was just to love Him. You were created to know and experience His love and acceptance for YOU! He cares for you. He loves you. He desires you. He wants you to come to Him (Matthew 11:28-30). The question then remains, when will you open your heart and receive what Jesus did on the cross into the depths of your heart. When will you let His unconditional rivers of love flow into your very being? He is what you were made for. It's not about being a religious fanatic. It's about falling in love with a living, breathing God, Jesus Christ Himself. You were made for Him - don't settle for anything less!

Father, I pray that you would take this generation deep into the vastness of Your loving kindness. I pray that, by Your grace, You would raise up men and women who are submitted to You with their whole hearts, for that is what Your eyes search for. I pray that people would open their hearts, and that you would flood them with rivers of unconditional love. That this generation would be pierced to the core of their being for Your love for them, and be wholly and fully committed to serving You and being like You. In Jesus name, Amen!