Can't Help Falling in Love- Ingrid Michaelson (youtube)
This song has been stuck in my head the last few days. It is so pure. I love it, I love to sing it in my car. It has grown this deep contentment and gladness in my heart for a certain love. In the past, I would generally associate this song with a boyfriend or whoever, but it is not that anymore. I used to give my whole life for those relationships, the ones that ate me alive and were so exhausting and never filling. Now there is the sweetest redemption; the only One I will ever say 'take my whole life' to is Christ. I smile typing that. I love that He is my whole life (Colossians 3:4), that He has my heart and is shaping my thoughts, my personality, and my actions to fall more in love with Him, and to even draw others to know love with Him. What amazing grace! When I read the Word and see Him work everywhere around me and in me, I can't help falling in love with Him. I love that it is nothing in me, nothing that I have done, am doing, or ever will do. My eyes have been infinitely blessed (Luke 10:23). 'Wise men say only fools rush in,' but I cannot help but give my whole self to Him, anything less would be unloving...hateful. 'Like a river runs surely to the sea, darling, so it goes. Some things are meant to be,' so perfectly speaks of His sovereignty and how He has chosen us. It was set before I ever even realized I was empty and dead in my sin, that I would be His for eternity and freely given grace and love through His son (Ephesians 1:4-6). There is so much going on in my life, but that's all I want to say right now. I am just full of joy in falling in love with Jesus.
