Bring on the Romance with Love Songs
It’s just a few days until Valentine’s Day so it’s time to get our love songs play list ready to go!
When my then-boyfriend (later, my husband) and I were dating, we had a favorite “puppy love” song, Bobby Vee’s “My Venus in Blue Jeans” — LOL! As we continued dating, we crooned over “Hey Paula, I Wanna’ Marry You” and then being avid musical theater fans, our song was The Music Man’s “Till There Was You”. My brother, with his exquisite baritone voice, sang that one at our wedding.
In later years, Kenny Rogers (RIP), with his amazing vibrato voice, put to lyrics and music what we felt about each other. We swooned over “Lady”, “She Believes in Me”, and our absolute favorite was “Through the Years”. I’ve been known to tear up if I hear that one playing over a sound system somewhere!
Aw! Bring on the romance with candlelight and love songs playing in the background. To love and be loved is life’s sweetest treasure. I knew that love and that treasure. But even more than earthly love, the most beloved relationship we could ever hope to experience is our relationship with God.
That love grows exponentially when we discover the beautiful romance we have with Him. He yearns for us to share a life of beauty, intimacy, and adventure with Him. In Jeremiah 31:3, He says “I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
God made the whole world for romance — the rivers, meadows, mountains, beaches, flowers, music, a kiss, a sunrise, a sunset, a touch. But where is the romance when we let that relationship slide and we lose ourselves in work, stress, concern and worry? That’s with our earthly love AND with the Lover of our souls.
“I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not share your affection with any other god!” Exodus 20:5. WOW! God is jealous for our romance. When we put so much of life’s stuff ahead of Him, we are sharing our affection with other gods. He longs for us to be tender and inviting, intimate and fiercely devoted to Him.
Oh yes, our God has a passionate, romantic heart for us. There is no “earthly” love to compare. He knows our thoughts and our deepest desires. God’s love for us is immeasurable, unfathomable and it transcends our human understanding.
Excuse me — it’s time for romance and love songs. Won’t you join me in romancing our Lord, the One Whose steadfast love calls us to Him now:
“I love you Lord and I lift my voice,
To worship You, oh my soul, rejoice!
Take joy my King, in what You hear.
May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ears.”
Psalms 59:16: “I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For You have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.”