All You Need is Love

Remember that Beatle's song All You Need is Love?  If you said all the words to the chorus out loud it would sound kind of simplistic:  "All you need is love.   All you need is love.  All you need is love, love.  Love is all you need."

Silly when you hear it really.

And yet sometimes the most silly things carry with them a weight and a power that moves with a force greater than a locomotive.

I just had a conversation with a dear friend on the phone and she was telling me about the time she spends with a ministry that focuses on young kids.  I don't want to get into too many details, but it became crystal clear to me that the only thing that makes an impact on hearts that have been abused, beaten, and drained of hope--is. . . .love.

All you need is love.

But not just any kind of love.  The kind of love that I'm talking about here is the kind that comes from a heart that is able to span the universe; the kind that considers the depth of human despair and decides to partake of that very same darkness in order to overcome it.  This is the heart of Jesus, and His love literally moves mountains, oh, and human hearts too.

Listen to the words that talk of this kind of genuine love and let them bring life to your questioning soul:  "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. . . .This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."

Completion.  Our hearts long to feel complete--filled with a peace that overcomes our striving and longings for more.  That unnameable 'more' that lingers and simmers deep inside us but that we have a nearly impossible time defining.

The thing that addresses this unameable desire is nothing more than love.  Simple isn't it?  Too simple for people to accept and think that this could really meet the deep needs that are so very real and pressing.

It always seems this way until you actually experience it, and then everything changes.

All you need is love--God's love.  And He is offering it to you.

BT