love

What is in this word called love
Does it draw its meaning from here or above
Let me seek to venture a guess
Would it come from perfection, or from this mess

With the higher origins now sorted
Perhaps further investigation won’t be thwarted
As to how this word of the vow
Exhibits its true self here and now

Love is hard and shaped by denial
The true seeking of another all awhile
You lay down your wants, your dreams, your very self
All for the benefit of someone else

It’s a rather hard thing to truly do
Perhaps that’s why its gotten right by so few
It doesn’t make sense in a world such as this
Always focused on me and my momentary bliss

But there remains hope for those willing to try
We must follow his example and to ourselves die
He laid aside all the glory and fame
Because of the love that so constrained

Such love, how vast it is
That very God would become man and die for sin
Nothing can quite compare to this
Our love is never greater than his

But we are called to follow his example
To love the whole world, not just a sample
And we are also given a privilege of grace
To be to a girl in Christ’s place

Not that we replace him fully
In fact, our goal is to point her wholly
Toward her Maker, Savior, and Paraclete
Because with them, we are not to compete

Instead we are to love like the anointed Son
To endure all things for the benefit of the one
Whom God chooses to be our partner in life
A newly formed team focused on glory and light

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