This is How it Feels to be Loved

We are emotional beings. Emotion is an essential part of our make up. We respond emotionally to events past and present. Emotion is not reason; and is not rational. For that reason, we sometimes minimize it’s importance. We can conclude that it’s also not spiritual; but that’s not true. God made ever part of us: our bodies, our minds, our reason, our emotions, our soul and our spirit. For me there is a song that evokes extreme emotion. Okay, let me admit it; it brings tears to my eyes on nearly every hearing. I can’t tell you what it’s about. I don’t know most of the words or the “story” behind it. I catch only brief phrases but those phrases have incredible emotional impact.

The song is Held by Natalie Grant.  Here are some snatches of the lyrics:

Who told us we’d be rescued?
Why should we be saved?
This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was when everything fell
We’d be held.

Today, OC calls us to recall what God remembers and he quotes, “I remember … the kindness of thy youth.”

What God has done for us is not reasonable, it’s not explainable. “Why should we be saved?” We don’t deserve it and we are made fools if we try to explain it. His history with us is also beyond complete explanation. He has keep “the promise..that..when everything fell, we’d be held.”
In those time when He held us we were thankful, using OCs word “kind” to Him. It is comforting to remember what He remembers: the times He held us and to know that no matter what the future holds, He promises to hold us again.
It is okay to remember emotionally, because the love of God is beyond reason or emotion, but we should use everything we have to relate to it.
This is how it FEELS to be loved and it’s blessed.
Nick