-Samuel H. Moffett
so many ways to love
in so many cultures
from so many points of view
and what is loving here
may not be loving there.
so what is love?
["This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son in an atoning sacrifice for our sins."]
don't know where I'm going;
the world is big and I am small,
and there are so many who need to hear.
Am I equipped to tell them?
I don't feel that way. So often I feel that I've lost the story, that the message and the motivation
have slipped through my fingers--my mind loses its grip so quickly and so easily.
But there is a Spirit,
a Great Interpreter, so I can come, little child that I am, and offer my self for His use.
and there is a Great Message
made for all the peoples of the world--
those who see the world so very, very differently than I do
and those who share some of my little perspectives.
Lord, help me to see through their eyes,
Help me to understand your story.
But more than that, help me to invite people into your reign.
To invite them home. And that home is now, that reign is now.
God loved; Jesus obeyed. So love poured out onto this ball, onto these strange and beautiful beings with eyes and ears and smiles and hands...
From Moffett again:
"He loves the world, but he goes to the cross because he obeys: "Not my will, but thine, be done" (Luke 22:42)."
