Your Love’s Like A Hurricane

“How He Loves Us” by Kim Walker is my inspiration for the evening.

The following are the lyrics for the first verse:

“He is jealous for me
Love’s like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great your affections are for me.
Oh, how He loves us so
Oh, how He loves us
How He loves us so.”

I started thinking about hurricanes and wind. The way you can tell there is wind is by the way the trees move. If there’s a hurricane, let me tell you that the trees are moving violently! You cannot miss it!

Tonight at GIFT (Growing in Faith Together) we sang this song and it hit me like a brick that faith is like the wind. No one will know you have it unless your actions show it. If I was a palm tree in a storm right now, my leaves may or may not be blowing. I want, however, for my faith to show in me as much as the wind does in this tree:

And can you imagine what would happen if there was a tree like this in the middle of a whole bunch of calm trees? People would point and stare and not help but be drawn in. They’d ask questions and be amazed by the answers! I want faith like that. I want God’s love to be like a hurricane, with me bending beneath his wind and mercy.

Also, the second verse pretty much speaks for itself, but I couldn’t not add it, because it is so delicious!

Verse 2:

“So we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we’re all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way

That he loves us,
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves us
Woah, how He loves “

As I was moved because I was feeling like a failure, not responding to God’s love like I ought, we started singing this verse. I mess up every day and will continue to do so until I die, but God’s grace is so big we sink in it! How wonderful is that?!