Undying Love

You've given us Your heart
You've given us Your eyes
Undying love
For the forgotten.

Love for the forgotten. no; Undying love for the forgotten.

Those are the lyrics to the chorus of a song by Robbie Reider, written by all the students at Summer of Service 09. During the evening celebration, they had us text in anything that we wanted about SOS, and at the end, they would try to turn it into a song. And it turned out beautifully, if I do say so myself. A link to the song is here:

http://tinyurl.com/frisong

What is undying love? Or maybe that's even a bad question to start out with. What is love even? We talked about this at small group last week, with a great discussion led by the lovely Yott Hanes, and I personally got some really good input on what love is. Love is:
When you go out of your way to make someone else happy.
Sacrifice.
Giving up the things you want for someone else.
Sometimes doing things you don't even know what for, just for someone else.
Worrying(to an extent) about another person. Caring would be another way to put this.

Those were just a few ideas that we got from our Small Group. Other ideas(a little more known perhaps) are these(1st Corinthians 13:4-7:
⁴ Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵ or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. ⁶ It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷ Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

So, there's a little bit of love for you. I think that last verse really encapsulates a perfect segue to the next question. What is undying love?
Obviously, love IS undying. It says so in verse 7(or that's how I read it). Love never gives up, endures through all? I'd say that's pretty undying. And that sort of answers our question I guess. That's what undying love is. It never gives up. Never loses faith. It's always hopeful, and it always endures!
So then, what is undying love for the forgotten? Well. Love is all those things above. Undying love is all those things above tenfold, persevering in those above. And then the forgotten? Well that can be anybody, or everybody! The homeless, the sick, the poor, the kid at school with no friends, the popular kid who has no real friends, the popular person who is really searching for someone to just do life with; anybody. So God calls us to have undying love for all those people? How do we identify these people? Sometimes it's pretty darn simple. The guy sitting on the side of the street all alone, in rags, begging for money. That's easy to show love to. It gets a bit trickier with those people who hide it. So how can we know?

Wait for it.


WAIT FOR IT.


We can't. *shock and awe*


So what do we do? If we don't know who it is that's forgotten, who we're supposed to love, how do we love them?


It's simple:

Love EVERYONE. If He's given us his heart, and his eyes, and showed us His undying love, why don't we go out and USE that?? SHOW that love to others. Bring love to this world. Show more of the world what HIS undying love truly is like.

Just a thought.


Anyway. Something that's been running through my mind lately is a little movie I'd like to make. Maybe more than a little movie actually. It'd be a movie about love. And it would have... say, seven parts to it. And part one would be about love being patient... Part two, love being kind. Part three, love not being jealous. Part four, love keeping no records of wrong. Part five, rejoicing in truth. Part 6, undying.

I don't know. It'd be cool, I think.

That's all for now. Goodnight!