I Love You This Much

I'm not sure how many of you like country music or not. I've been listening to alot of country lately for two reasons... 1) i just really like country music 2) because it gives me this feeling of nastalgia, of when i worked with my dad, reminds me of home. One song in particular has made me do alot of thinking lately. Jimmy Wayne sings a song called "I Love You This Much" (Watch the video here).

The Song is about a boy who desires nothing more than his dad's (i think this is an inappropriate term for this man) love. The boy is constantly trying to get his fathers affection says with tears in his eyes and his arms stretched out as for as they go " I love you this much... and I'm waiting on you to make up your mind... do you love me too, however long it takes, I'm never giving up, no matter what, I love you this much."

Story goes on to the father's (i think this is more appropriate) funeral, where the boy now aged into a young man is staring at a statue of Jesus hanging on the cross. "He said "forgive me father", "when he realized, that he hadn't been unloved or alone all of his life, His arms were stretched out as far as they'd go, nailed to the cross, for the whole world to know... "I love you this much and im waiting on you to make up your mind, do you love me to, however long it takes, I'm never giving up no matter what, I love you this much."

Do you ever feel unloved and alone, like no one cares? John 3:16 says "for God so loved the world he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal........ Wow!! thats love... i don't understand this love, the willingness to give up a child to me is unfathomable..... but am so very thankful that God loved us enough to do it....

I cannot read that and not feel loved. Its so easy to forget that God is omnipresent therefore God is always with us... makiing it impossible to be alone... ever...

I hope that this post will remind you just how loved you are and that God is always there. God never turns down an opportunity to spend time with and talk to His children.....