So for the first time this last February, I was not single on Valentine's Day. I had a special someone. He was, admittedly, two entire states away. But I had someone to actually take part in the day with. On Valentine's day I was falling in love. And it was quite delightful. Love had come knocking on my door, to use a corny colloquialism.
Though I am no longer in a relationship, I did have a very special opportunity. I learned what it was like to be in love. How that changed a person, and how it changed how I spoke, thought, and acted. People would always chuckle at me, and say that I seemed to live and breath the man I was in love with. At the time that made me grin; yet today it is causing me to reflect.
Both before, during, and after the relationship, there was a song that I loved to listen to by my favorite musician, Jason Gray. The title of the song was More Like Falling in Love. Jason speaks in the song of the desire to have a relationship with God that is more like falling in love than something to believe in. More like losing his heart than giving his allegiance. When given rules, he said, he would end up breaking them. Give him lines, and he would cross them. He desired more than a truth he was supposed to believe. Instead he wanted a love that moved, lived, and breathed.
That was what it was like to be in love. I did not just decide that I needed to believe in a man, but instead fell in love. I did not reluctantly give my allegiance, but instead lost my heart. I found that my love began to grow much more when I stopped worrying about the rules and the lines that I was supposed to keep and just lived, moved, and breathed the truth of being loved and cherished.
But where does that leave me now? I am no longer in a living, moving, breathing, valentine-like relationship. Or am I? Jason was not talking about a woman in his song, he was talking about God. As the church, after all, am I not the bride of Christ? Is it not me that Jesus came to save and wishes to have a relationship with? A living, moving, and breathing relationship of the truth of his sacrifice and love.
I want Christ's name be the one that flows constantly off my lips. Not because I owe him my allegiance, but because he is just the one I am so in love with that I can't help but talk about him. I want my actions to be centered around serving Christ. Not because it is the right thing to do, but because being in love causes one to desire to serve another above themselves. I want my thoughts to constantly be on Christ because he is just so wonderful and I am so in love that I can't keep my mind off of him. I want it to be more like falling in love, more like losing my heart....
Give me rules
I will break them
Show me lines
I will cross them
I need more than
A truth to believe
I need a truth that lives
Moves and breathes
To sweep me off my feet, 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, oh
It's like I'm falling in love
Give me words
I'll misuse them
Obligations
I'll misplace them
'Cause all religion
Ever made of me
Was just a sinner
With a stone tied to my 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, oh
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
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, oh
It's like I'm falling
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, oh
It's like I'm falling in love
It's like I'm falling
(Falling in love)
It's like I'm falling
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