More Like Falling In Love

Give me rules, I will break them.

Give me lines I will cross them.

I need more than a truth to believe in.

I need a truth that lives, moves and breathes,

to sweep me off my feet....

It oughta be...

More like falling in love, than something to believe in.

More like losing my heart, than giving my allegiance.

Caught up, called out, take a look at me know,

It's like I'm falling, oh,

It's like I'm falling in love.

Give me words, I'll misuse them.

Obligations, I misplace them.

'Cause all religion made of me was just a sinner with a stone tied to his feet,

It never set me free.

It's gotta be more like,

falling in love, than something to believe in.

More like losing my heart, than giving my allegiance.

Caught up, called out, come take a look at me now...

It's like I'm falling in love.

It's like I'm falling in love, love, love.

Deeper and Deeper.

It was love that made me a believer.

In more than a name, a faith, a creed,

Falling in love with Jesus brought the change in me.

~Falling In Love, by Jason Gray

"Greater love has no man than this, that He lay down His life for His friend." 

~John 15:13

A Trail of Fruit

I found this verse on a crumpled piece of Hampton Inn "Thought Pad" paper, in one of my bags that I was cleaning out today. The fact that it was called a "Thought Pad" was appropriate =)

"You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you." ~John 15:16

He chose us.

We didn't choose Him. No matter how hard we try, I think it really comes down to him choosing us. And in a way, that makes me feel really special. He took the time to choose me. He cares enough to choose me.

He appointed us to bear fruit.

And not just bear fruit, but to bear fruit that will remain. Appointed to leave fruit behind. Like a trail of actions saying "I, a child of Christ, has been here." Actions that will remain, and stay around for a while.

And......

If we do that, if we bear fruit that will remain, and seek to follow Him with our whole hearts (because really, that's the only way that our seeds will bear fruit) then whatever we ask of the Father will be given to us. Isn't that an awesome promise?

Quench Your Thirst

“Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” ~John 4:13-14


"The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail."
~Isaiah 58:11