Lou Rawls sang that song so good! Maybe you were there! It’s the 70s and you’re either chillin’ at home, or out partying with your gals. Maybe you’re on the dance floor grooving away. You have all kinds of thoughts on your mind; schooling, job interviews, calling that pesky guy hitting on you, etc. You’ve been rubbed the wrong way by your pain-y parents and right now, you just want to bask in the deepness of Rawls’ voice.
Hearing that song places you right where you were 50 years ago! You can smell the perfumes, colognes, the food, even the atmosphere. You can even read your thoughts from so far back! It’s amazing! Listen again:
“You’ll never find…it’ll take the end of all time/someone to understand you like I do/…But I’m the one who loves you (ooh, oh)/And there’s no one else! No, one else.”
But as that was your world back then, God says the same words to you today! Right now, in Jeremaih 31:3, He says to you, “I have loved you with an everlasting love;”
We shall never be loved by ANYONE more than what He loves us!
At this very moment, you might not be wearing your dancing shoes, you might not feel like singing. You might not even care about the false words some Romeo texted you. Your heart might be in your belly; your tears streaming down your cheeks, and you might just want to be left alone…After all, those days of fifty years ago are gone. Those moments are no more; they’re glimpses of better times. They were our youth. They shaped our lives. In them we planned our weeks and months. But now, we’re living in a different world.
Maybe you need to hear those words again! “We’re living in a different world!”
Times have changed. And those lyrics from long ago, as great as they were, and as good as they sounded, should be replaced by similar, but better ones! You should be seeking to hear them from God’s lips. You’re in His heart. You’re on His mind. He’s waiting to personally tell you how much He loves you!
Listen to His words:
“For I am the LORD God, besides me there is no other” (Isaiah 45:5). And,
“Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall trouble or hardship, or persecution or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword” (Romans 8:35)?
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38,39). To move on in life, we need a new beginning! Start anew where you are with God in your life!
Like the late Keith Green sang, “You can run to the end of the highway and not find what you’re looking for/No, it won’t make your troubles disappear…To find yourself, you have to start right here.”
Great poets and singers have poured out their hearts with heart-stirring, heart-clinching lyrics pulling our emotions in certain directions-sometimes with legit intentions, but God has got something better! While a man/woman can vow to never leave us, their words may not always hold water! Since Jesus is the WORD, His words are forever; And, YES! His Word (Jesus), does hold water (Isaiah 40:12)!
Go ahead, bask in the deepness of His voice, for “He thunders marvelously” (Job 37:5)! Get dancing!
God Bless!
Sam