“I AM your pride.

I AM your glory.

I AM the lifter of your head.

I AM everything you need for Life and Godliness.

Seek Me with all your heart and I promise you will find Me.

Seek My Face, for I love yours.

Let My Name be the most precious sound in the world to your heart.

Come to Me as you are. I will never turn you away for you are My heart’s desire.”

“If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.”   1 John 4:15.

“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”   Isaiah 53:5.

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”   Acts 4:2.

“Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”   Hebrews 12:2.

“Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?””   John 11:40.

“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”   Galatians 6:14.

In The Name of Love

Since early last week I have hearing ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’ by the Irish group U2.

It’s actually a song about Dr Martin Luther King.  Bono began writing about something else entirely, but read biographies of Dr King and Malcolm X, and turned his attention instead to the civil rights movement.

It’s a song that has meant much to many people, despite the disparaging reviews of critics and the disappointment of Bono himself.

The words were just placeholders, so to speak.  Bono intended to rewrite them, but he was persuaded to leave them as they were because others felt the impressionistic nature of the words added to the emotional impact of the song.  He now wishes he had revised them.

Famously the lyrics get one detail wrong. Dr King was not shot early in the morning and Bono now sings “early evening” instead.

But I haven’t been hearing it in connection with the civil rights movement… nor any other current issues…

Instead, thanks to recent revelation of The LORD, I have been seeing the song as I did when I first heard it when I was young.

I heard it then and know it is about Dr Martin Luther King, but it has always spoken to me even more strongly of the One who inspired Dr King, Martin Luther, Paul, Peter and John, Stephen the martyr, Amy Carmichael, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and so many others down through the ages.

“One man coming in the name of love?

It spoke to me then and speaks to me now of Jesus.

Our Saviour who laid down His life for us.

Who was betrayed with a kiss from a friend.

Who was tortured for our sins.

Who was mocked and beaten and crucified.

Who suffered, bled and died that we might be free to enter behind the veil and live eternally, joyfully, radically, going about our Father’s business as He Himself did.

They took His life, yet they could not take His pride.

He willingly let Himself be killed for us.

What more in the name of love?

Nothing more.

Nothing more is needed.

Only He.

Always He.”

 

~ Iris Maud, UK.

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Iris Maud, UK.

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