Special Kind Of Love

I was listening to the music on my phone this afternoon, when DeGarmo & Key started playing. Old school, Christian Rock, if you aren't familiar with their music. You won't be disappointed.

They started singing the song, Special Kind of Love. The lyrics talk about how it could only be God, who could love humanity so much that He essentially sacrificed Himself, in order that He might have relationship with us.

What a powerful message. One that we obviously should all be about sharing, whether across the street or across the globe, on this #missionsFriday.

Yet, it truly took an act of God to redeem humanity.

We all have our days, where simply lose our desire to "adult". You just don't want to be engaged.

Driver's on the road aren't fully attentive to driving.
Classmates are bugging our kids, while our colleagues prompt us to question our employment decisions.
Then there's the days where you aren't sure if you would rather your spouse be upset with you or your boss... God forbid they give you grief on the same day, regardless of whether it was deserved or not.

Compassion loses to cynicism.
Love gets buried, not by hatred necessarily, but perhaps more by apathy.
An obedient response gives room for a hesitant one.

God help is, what Christ did for us, indeed took a special kind of love; for all too often we miss the opportunity to express a common kind of love. And as society continues to redefine what "love" looks like, the Gospel will become even more special... as long as it continues to go forth.

On this #missionsFriday, pray for those who are struggling to keep the love of Christ at the forefront of our lives. Pray for missionaries, who are weighed down and fatigued by life's stresses and battles. May God help them, where compassion, love and obedience are perhaps hindered or diminished by current circumstances. Pray God would give them wisdom in the days ahead, and grace with themselves. May the Holy Spirit do a fresh work within them; and with all of us, as it is realized where we have missed the mark in our daily lives and activities.

For the Gospel is not only more relevant than ever before
But more needed too.
For the cause of Jesus Christ.

- PNC