No place I’d rather be.

Most of my friends have just fallen in love with this very simple, very powerful song by United Pursuit Band called “Set a Fire.”  The first lyrics go like this: “There’s no place I would rather be. No place I’d rather be. No place I’d rather be, than here in Your love, here in Your love.” 

 I think sometimes when I say “no place I’d rather be than here in Your love” what I mean by “here” is in this place, with these people.  Which, sure, that’s true.  But I think there is so much more to it than that.

Do you realize that God’s love is so real and so powerful and so present that it is more like a place than a feeling?  Jesus said, “remain in my love”.  What does that mean?  It means that being in His love is like being in a place.  That place is not confined to a certain room or to a certain group of people. It is a place that you never ever have to leave.  To be in His love is to be in His presence. 

There is no place I would rather be than in the love of Jesus.  Where else could I go? This place carries me from day to day, from burden to freedom, from life to death and then to life again.  I want more of that love. I want it to be so very real that I feel it deep in my soul and in my bones.

The next lyrics are, “Set a fire down in my soul that I can’t contain, that I can’t control. I want more of You God.”  I want that. I want this love to be so real that it’s a fire in me that I cannot keep contained or bottled up.  I want more of it too.  I want to be in His love more, and more, each day. That’s the place where I become me and everyone I love becomes more themselves.  I can love them more easily there.  I can be free to live there.  Free of fear. Free from accusations.  Really, the reason I love this song so much and the reason I can sing the same lyrics over and over is because this is what I need, and what I desire.  Why? Because it’s in His love that I find everything I need.  No place I’d rather be. 
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