Do I Believe You?

“You keep no record of my sin. You don’t remember all my shame.”

While listening to this song in church, I penned a big question down in my journal:

See, I don’t just want to believe IN Him, but I want to believe Him.

I want to LET Him love me.  I don’t want to shy away from His loving embrace.

“Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.⁵It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].⁶It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.⁷Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].⁸Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].

13And so faith, hope, love abide [faith–conviction and belief respecting man’s relation to God and divine things; hope–joyful and confident expectation of external salvation; love–true affection for God and man, growing out of God’s love for and in us], these three, but the the greatest of these is love.

Do you believe Him?