I AM Love | Rion & Sarah Van Vuuren
Song | I AM Love
Artist | Rion & Sarah Van Vuuren
Have you ever gone through something where you found your faith in God's love shaken to it's core? Have you been close to doubting that God really is love because the pain and hardship that you have tasted almost felt like it was too much and that left you wondering for a moment if God REALY IS love? This story goes back to the garden of gethsemane where Yeshua sweat blood. In that garden, there are two voices, the one was called love and the other lies, it was the serpent itself, trying to make Yeshua loose sight of Love Himself. I think there, in the garden, for Yeshua, it sounded something like this...
"Do you really think that God loves you? Maybe when you were seated upon a throne in glory, but now, here, you are forgotten. God does not love you. How can He if He tells you to die? You are alone, not even your disciples love you, they can't even stay awake to pray with you. They love sleep more than they love you. Judas loves money more than you. You tried to save God's people but you can't because they love sin more than they love you, and now look, you are weak and will be dead soon."
The voice of love instead... "I AM here My Son, I AM with You. You are My Beloved Son in whom I AM well pleased."
Yeshua did not listen to the voice of the serpent who tried to crush Him, instead, He gave His ears over to Love Himself, who waited with Him, who waited for Him, to fulfil His task and enter in once for and for all, so that no voice could ever prevail against Love Himself again.
Sadly, the enemies lies did not stop there. When we find ourselves in gethsemane seasons or even moments, when we are pressed, that voice makes its appearance again from behind the closest olive tree and he slithers like a snake, until he is so close to your ear as he can be, quietly hiding in the garden of your mind, waiting to crush you. He is sly and cunning but his weapons make it hard not to listen. The weapons he uses is our pain, brokenness, weaknesses, struggles. He is after our perception and he can easily take charge of it, when we loose the truth within the mind of Christ as we lean in to the wicked ones' lies...
It says: "God will not heal you. There are too many legal rights that I still have against you. You'll be trying to cross sins, iniquity and transgressions off of the list long after your'e already dead. God doesn't love you, because you are too weak, too pathetic. You're a failure. You even fail to love Him. Do you feel that fire, it burns! If God loved you, He would have delivered you out of it, but He leaves you here. You don't see God, you don't hear Him, you don't feel Him because He is angry at you, disappointed in you, you displease Him in your weakness."
Does it sound a little bit familiar? The enemy will always try to make us believe that God does not care about us, He does not really love us, because He knows that it is the very power of God's love that will save us.
The fight that we need to fight is against our feelings... Many times you FEEL unworthy, you FEEL abandoned, You FEEL heavy, you FEEL weak, you FEEL defeated, you FEEL far and removed from God's presence. All those feelings are the false realities that the enemy put in front of your face, in order to take your mind captive. Doew your feelings speak louder than THE TRUTH of God's love in your life? Well when the fire is turned up 7 times, it becomes hard not to believe the enemy if your feelings are a witness.
The enemy planted seed in our minds, seed that our emotions sprouted as truth and our belief system watered as reality, but it's a FALSE REALITY.
This song is about taking a step back and addressing your feelings, telling it to take the back seat, in order to let love steer your mind, your beliefs. GOD IS LOVE EVEN IF YOU DON'T FEEL IT OR SEE IT and if you just allow Him, give Him the hope, the faith the trust that He requires, He will show it to you, you WILL see it! We have! When we have been in these moments, battling when your feelings drag you deep down into the depths, we cried out- YOU ARE LOVE!!... He personally proved it, taking the serpent by it's neck and crushing it deeper in us than before. Now, after another gethsemane season, we can testify a little louder, because we have personally tasted that GOD IS LOVE!