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- Mumford and Sons

 

"But tell me now where was my fault,
In loving you with my whole heart?
Oh tell me now where as my fault,
In loving you with my whole heart?"

I love, love, love this song. The first verse starts off listing things that if you are pure, you should be able to answer yes. "Can you lie next to her and give her your heart, your heart? As well as your body. And can you lie next to her and confess your love, your love? As well as your folly. And can you kneel before this king and say, "I'm clean", "I'm clean."

In reality, only a very small portion of our world can truthfully answer any one of these three questions with the response, "yes" But that should not prohibit love. True love. Whole hearted love. If anything, our imperfections drive us to strive for such love. Only, where can we find it? Where do we look? Where can one look and find such love? (If you've read my other posts, you may know where this is going.) There is only one way. Only one path that will get you to what your heart truly desires. That path is God's path.

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, ad many enter through it. But small is the gate ad narrow the road that leads to life, ad only a few find it."

- Matthew 7:13-14 (NIV)

This verse isn’t saying that there are only a select few people that have already been chosen to walk the past, but rather that only few find it because only few look. Only a few look in the right place that is. We as a people are looking for something. We are looking for love and affirmation. Too often we dismiss God’s love. I’m almost certain that the band Mumford and Sons are not a particularly religious band but I can parallel this song and my relationship with God.

“You desired my attention, but denied my affections, my affections.”

In these words I see a world that wants to go to heaven, but is unwilling to accept the undying love our Lord has endowed us. I’m not trying to scare you into loving God back. I’m just trying to help you find what your heart desires.