Loves Me Live A Rock
She loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
And she loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
-Paul Simon
-Isaiah 26:4 (CEB)
-Luke 15:20
Love is pretty much the antidote or answer to everything. That makes sense when you consider that God is love. The whole message is that God loves us, which is why Jesus Christ came.
When I was a little boy
And the Devil would call my name
I'd say "now who do
Who do you think you're fooling?"
I'm a consecrated boy
Singer in a Sunday choir
My mama loves, she loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
She loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
When I was grown to be a man
And the Devil would call my name
I'd say "now who do
Who do you think you're fooling?"
I'm a consummated man
I can snatch a little purity
My mama loves me, she loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
She loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
If I was President
And the Congress call my name
I'd say "who do
Who do you think you're fooling?"
I've got the Presidential Seal
I'm up on the Presidential Podium
My mama loves me
She loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
And she loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
Love is pretty much the antidote or answer to everything. That makes sense when you consider that God is love. The whole message is that God loves us, which is why Jesus Christ came.
God's love. Father's love. And we love because God loves.
Loving our children teaches them about God's love. My mom has told me hundreds of times, "Remember your mommy loves you". Sounds silly, but it is a blessing.
Raising children? "Train up a child in the way he should go", is what the Bible says, so that is what we do. Training means 'dedicate' or 'consecrate' and in the way he should go means 'according to their individual temperament, disposition, talents, or destiny'. We help our children discover their design and who God has destined them to be.
Love is the foundation of parenting. The parent walks in the love of God and loves their children with that love. Loving others comes from receiving Gods love and living loved, and we train our children in loving God and knowing the Father's affection.
We do good after we have received the love and we train our children in the love of God and they learn right from wrong in the atmosphere of love. Consecration or dedication of children or infants is not just an event, but a process that may or may not have an event occur within it. We need to walk in God's love daily, and we need to train our children in God's love every day.
The love of God is the essential ingredient in everything God does. The reason Jesus came was love. The whole Old Testament rules, guidelines, or law is founded on loving God, and fleshed out in loving God and then loving people. And Jesus' command, to the person who would follow him and let him live that life of loving God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength; through them, is to simply love others.
We stand on Christ, the solid rock. The essence of Christ is his love for his dad. In Christ, we are all about loving Father.
This is what The Rock of Ages is. Christians are people 'in Christ'. To be 'in Christ' is to be cleansed and forgiven of sin and to be living out of his love.
Many of us were not raised or trained up this way by loving parents. Many of us were raised by godly Christian parents, but we missed out on this foundation of love. What then?
A few thoughts. Your history is not your destiny. Life in Christ is a new history, filled with new beginnings, and a pioneer-spirit life of going out and going in.
We are to honor and love our parents, even as we live in Christ differently than they do or did. Same Christ, if they are Christians, but Christ calls you to follow him. And our love for Christ is so great, that we 'hate' our parents in comparison.
You may not have had a very loving mamma, but God will compensate you. You do not live 'ripped off' or 'one-down' for life, as a child unloved. No. Father loves you and adopts you into a relationship that your earthly mamma and papa may have not at all reflected.
Father loves you and me the way that he designed our mothers to love us. Father created mothers and he will love you in all the ways that your earthly mother did not. God is waiting and willing to love us, but we have to come into his embrace.
I love the story of the father with two sons in Luke 15. When the prodigal ("wasteful and extravagant") son returns home, the father runs to meet him and embraces him. Jesus is sharing that this is how God is.
This son was reckless and very disrespectful and unloving towards his dad. But his dad still loved him anyway. The dad was on the lookout and saw the young man returning and ran down the path to meet him, which was very untoward, culturally; which means that he did not care how it looked, but his running was about his compassionate love for his lost son.
The other side of that story is the 'good son' who stayed with his dad, but was not enjoying his father's affection, but had the mistaken idea that he was in good standing through his own merit. When the story ends, there is a huge celebration for the return of the lost son, while the other son is seething.
Both sons have the opportunity to learn about their father's unconditional love and unmerited favor and about just being with their dad in his love. The Father has always been the compassionate loving God. We are the ones who have either gone astray.
We go astray overtly or covertly. People who strive in their religion of Christianity and delude themselves that even part of being saved is through their own merit, do so thinking that God is with them and is affirming that lifestyle. They are living in "The Father's House" with completely wrong assumptions about how the life works.
The 'kicker' is that God seems to not correct or fix them, and lets them keep doing their (wrong) thing, in his name and make disciples who make more disciples. And they say they are 'for His glory', as they live unlovingly and represent God as something other than compassionate and loving.
Why or how can this be? Free will is a huge value for God. He lets people blaspheme him and misrepresent him in all sorts of egregious ways without stopping it.
God has spoken and God is speaking and God is alive and well. Jesus is building his church. You can recognize it, in it's infinite number of unique expressions by his character in it, that mirrors his father's character. The great war plan against God has been to distort his character and what he is towards humankind.
The whole OT told a story of God's love and in Jesus, God showed what he is like. There have been distortions from the beginning about what God said and who God is and what God requires. But we know that God's way, God's character, and what God is to us is about Father's love.
He loves me: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love me. And I love them back because they loved me first. And I join in on their love mission in this world.
That is the love we love our children in, that sets them on the path. That is the love we live in as Christians.
Raising children? "Train up a child in the way he should go", is what the Bible says, so that is what we do. Training means 'dedicate' or 'consecrate' and in the way he should go means 'according to their individual temperament, disposition, talents, or destiny'. We help our children discover their design and who God has destined them to be.
Love is the foundation of parenting. The parent walks in the love of God and loves their children with that love. Loving others comes from receiving Gods love and living loved, and we train our children in loving God and knowing the Father's affection.
We do good after we have received the love and we train our children in the love of God and they learn right from wrong in the atmosphere of love. Consecration or dedication of children or infants is not just an event, but a process that may or may not have an event occur within it. We need to walk in God's love daily, and we need to train our children in God's love every day.
The love of God is the essential ingredient in everything God does. The reason Jesus came was love. The whole Old Testament rules, guidelines, or law is founded on loving God, and fleshed out in loving God and then loving people. And Jesus' command, to the person who would follow him and let him live that life of loving God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength; through them, is to simply love others.
We stand on Christ, the solid rock. The essence of Christ is his love for his dad. In Christ, we are all about loving Father.
This is what The Rock of Ages is. Christians are people 'in Christ'. To be 'in Christ' is to be cleansed and forgiven of sin and to be living out of his love.
Many of us were not raised or trained up this way by loving parents. Many of us were raised by godly Christian parents, but we missed out on this foundation of love. What then?
A few thoughts. Your history is not your destiny. Life in Christ is a new history, filled with new beginnings, and a pioneer-spirit life of going out and going in.
We are to honor and love our parents, even as we live in Christ differently than they do or did. Same Christ, if they are Christians, but Christ calls you to follow him. And our love for Christ is so great, that we 'hate' our parents in comparison.
You may not have had a very loving mamma, but God will compensate you. You do not live 'ripped off' or 'one-down' for life, as a child unloved. No. Father loves you and adopts you into a relationship that your earthly mamma and papa may have not at all reflected.
Father loves you and me the way that he designed our mothers to love us. Father created mothers and he will love you in all the ways that your earthly mother did not. God is waiting and willing to love us, but we have to come into his embrace.
I love the story of the father with two sons in Luke 15. When the prodigal ("wasteful and extravagant") son returns home, the father runs to meet him and embraces him. Jesus is sharing that this is how God is.
This son was reckless and very disrespectful and unloving towards his dad. But his dad still loved him anyway. The dad was on the lookout and saw the young man returning and ran down the path to meet him, which was very untoward, culturally; which means that he did not care how it looked, but his running was about his compassionate love for his lost son.
The other side of that story is the 'good son' who stayed with his dad, but was not enjoying his father's affection, but had the mistaken idea that he was in good standing through his own merit. When the story ends, there is a huge celebration for the return of the lost son, while the other son is seething.
Both sons have the opportunity to learn about their father's unconditional love and unmerited favor and about just being with their dad in his love. The Father has always been the compassionate loving God. We are the ones who have either gone astray.
We go astray overtly or covertly. People who strive in their religion of Christianity and delude themselves that even part of being saved is through their own merit, do so thinking that God is with them and is affirming that lifestyle. They are living in "The Father's House" with completely wrong assumptions about how the life works.
The 'kicker' is that God seems to not correct or fix them, and lets them keep doing their (wrong) thing, in his name and make disciples who make more disciples. And they say they are 'for His glory', as they live unlovingly and represent God as something other than compassionate and loving.
Why or how can this be? Free will is a huge value for God. He lets people blaspheme him and misrepresent him in all sorts of egregious ways without stopping it.
God has spoken and God is speaking and God is alive and well. Jesus is building his church. You can recognize it, in it's infinite number of unique expressions by his character in it, that mirrors his father's character. The great war plan against God has been to distort his character and what he is towards humankind.
The whole OT told a story of God's love and in Jesus, God showed what he is like. There have been distortions from the beginning about what God said and who God is and what God requires. But we know that God's way, God's character, and what God is to us is about Father's love.
He loves me: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love me. And I love them back because they loved me first. And I join in on their love mission in this world.
That is the love we love our children in, that sets them on the path. That is the love we live in as Christians.
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Loves Me Like a Rock, by Paul Simon
And the Devil would call my name
I'd say "now who do
Who do you think you're fooling?"
I'm a consecrated boy
Singer in a Sunday choir
My mama loves, she loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
She loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
When I was grown to be a man
And the Devil would call my name
I'd say "now who do
Who do you think you're fooling?"
I'm a consummated man
I can snatch a little purity
My mama loves me, she loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
She loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
If I was President
And the Congress call my name
I'd say "who do
Who do you think you're fooling?"
I've got the Presidential Seal
I'm up on the Presidential Podium
My mama loves me
She loves me
She gets down on her knees and hugs me
And she loves me like a rock
She rocks me like the rock of ages
And she loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
She loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me
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