This song is just what He’s teaching me these days:

I’ve been struggling with paradox of simultaneously being a worthless sinner and the daughter of the King. How can the two intersect? Do I even have the ability to truly accept the beautiful fatherly love that rains down since I’m so busy eating figs from the forbidden tree?

It’s no good for me to try to “not sin.” There is no avoiding it, or else I would be God. (Good thing I am far from being God.) It is very good for me to try to love. I can do this. It is what I’m built for.

My identities- sinner and daughter- are opposites. There is no doubt I would rather only identify with the latter. But instead of trying to avoid being a sinner (and disappointing myself time and time again), I’ll rather concentrate on being a loving daughter.  There is no law against love.

I was made for love, not sin. As often as I stray from love, I have no doubts that I fit back perfectly into God’s intricate jigsaw puzzle of hearts and hugs and healing. My sin does not hinder me from accepting God’s love. If anything, it makes me more desperate for it.

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To Feel Your Love | blakestratton
An iPhone demo…please excuse the rough edges

LYRICS:

I could prophesy ten years down the line/Raise the dead or speak in tongues of the divine/But life is only found in a whisper

I was made for your love/Was made for your love/I was made to feel your love

The greatest work I’ll do I have now begun/And it’s to simply let you love me as your son/You gave everything just to have me

I was made for your love/Was made for your love/I was made to feel your love
You came for me/For freedom you set me free/Now I am free to feel your love

You chose me for me, you took me as I was/Not for what you’d get, you’ve given me your trust/So here is my heart for the keeping