“For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son. . .” (John 3:16a).

Until the reality of the love of God breaks through to our hearts, we are as the songwriter tells us:

“Until today when you pulled away the clouds that hung like curtains on my eyes, I’ve been so blind all these wasted years; and I thought I was so wise, but then You took me by surprise.”*

The Reality of Love has to come to us as a great surprise, a breakthrough, a revelation, a waking up from our sleep, as from a state of dreaming.

“Like waking up from the longest dream, how real it seemed until Your love broke through. I’ve been lost in a fantasy that blinded me until Your love broke through.”

So much of life for so many is a fantasy, a vain imagination, that only lasts for a moment and then is gone in a vapor of smoke, and wafts away as a passing fancy, only to become a fading memory.

“Like a foolish dreamer trying to build a highway to the sky, all my hopes would come tumbling down and I never knew just why.”

The Reality of Love must come in, must break through to replace all the vanity. The reality of God’s Love in His Son, the Only Begotten Son of His love, who was given as a sacrifice, as an offering up on the Cross for the sin of the whole world.

Inwardly, secretly we are all seekers, searching for reality, for substance, for the truth.

“All my life I’ve been searching for that crazy missing part; and with one touch You just rolled away the stone that held my heart. Now I see that the answer was as easy as just asking You in; and I am so sure I could never doubt Your gentle touch again, it’s like the power of the wind.”

Jesus said, “The wind blows where it lists, and you hear the sound thereof, but you cannot tell from where it came, and where it goes; so is everyone that is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8).

The Reality of Love comes as a breeze, a touch upon the heart, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, by which we are changed. We are born again of the Spirit of God. We come alive. We are raised as from a bed upon which we were asleep; but we awake and rise up to walk in the newness of life, no more to live in fantasies and unrealities, but in truth.

What fantasy must you escape? From what dream state must you awake? From what state of death must you be raised to life? Take the time to listen to the wind, to feel the zephyr of His breath upon your heart. Your senses will be moved by the working of His Spirit within to bear witness to the reality of His love.

Let His love break through today. Let His love unmask you, and let your true identity be revealed. Your identity in Him who is “the Way, the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6). Today, right now, He is ready to take you by surprise and make all things new.

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*Your Love Broke Through: Keith Green