Unreserved, unrestrained
Your love is wild
Your love is wild for me
It isn't shy, it's unashamed
Your love is proud
Your love is wild for me
It isn't shy, it's unashamed
Your love is proud
To be seen with me
You don't give Your heart in pieces
You don't hide Yourself to tease us
Uncontrolled, uncontained
Your love is a fire
Burning bright for me
It's not just a spark
It's not just a flame
Your love is a light
That all the world will see
All the world will see
You don't give Your heart in pieces
You don't hide Yourself to tease us
Your love's not fractured
It's not a troubled mind
It isn't anxious
It's not the restless kind
Your love's not passive
It's never disengaged
It's always present
It hangs on every word we say
Love keeps its promises
It keeps its word
It honors what's sacred
'Cause its vows are good
Your love's not broken
It's not insecure
Your love's not selfish
Your love is pure
You don't give Your heart in pieces
You don't hide Yourself to tease us
I am so glad God is not like man.
I've been reading Ruth lately and I was drawn to Boaz's complete compassion. When Boaz extended kindness and protection to Ruth, she responded this way: Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?"
Oh Lord, what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Why, Lord, are you mindful of me? Why in heaven would you take notice of me? And then bestow upon me grace after grace?
Boaz blessed Ruth indeed. But God, Jesus is the better redeemer! Jesus gives eternal provision, protection, peace and prosperity. He takes us as His own, on His own accord. He gives everything freely - we have nothing to offer Him in return. He kindly takes notice of us sinful orphans and gives us salvation and a home.
Listen to the way the Lord speaks of us, speaks to us.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
And in that day, you will call me "My Husband"
And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
And I will betroth you to me forever.
I will betroth you to me in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
I will betroth you to me in faithfulness.
And you shall know the Lord.
Then you will call upon Me, and come and pray to Me, and I will hear you. You will seek Me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart.
"I will be found by you," declares the Lord.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people: once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are Mine."
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness;
He will quiet you by His love;
He will exult over you with loud singing.
For thus said the Lord of hosts... he who touches you touches the apple of his eye
For from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued my faithfulness to you.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angles nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Considering my past, the lies and shortcomings of others, my impure heart... it is easy to despair.
Considering the nature of God, His unending faithfulness and compassion... I am led, like Ruth, to the ground in wonder and thanksgiving because God is not like man.
Scripture references: Ruth 2:10; Psalms 8:4; Ephesians 5:25; Hosea 2:14-20; Jeremiah 29:12-14a; 1 Peter 2:9-10; Isaiah 43:1; Zephaniah 3:17; Zechariah 2:8; Daniel 10:12; Jeremiah 31:3; 1 John 4:16; Romans 8:38-39
