If I Truly Love You
by Effie Darlene Barba
If I truly love You, Lord, today
With all my heart and soul
What would I do, what would I say?
If You became my highest goal?
If all I sought was Your dear face
To know You more each day
Would I then Lord reflect Your Grace
To all who pass my way.
What if I loved you with all my mind?
My focus finely tuned just so
Would I then be always kind?
To those who do not know.
While holding fast to faith and trust
Though arrows fly so near
The whispering lies that then I must
Deflect with truth, no fear
And if I loved with all my might
To keep yours laws, commands
And make the choice to do what’s right
Held firm within Your Hands
If I could see Your thorn scarred brow
The nail scars in Your hands
The depth of love You had somehow
For one who makes demands
Of foolish, selfish, wants desires
Forgetting who I am
A sinner stuck within the mires
A pride filled, evil scam
If I could see the darkest depth
That lies within my heart
Bitter tears are what I’d wept
My Sorrows ne’er depart
Were it not for Grace so Grand
That looked beyond this truth
And took me gently by Your Hand
While I was in my Youth
It for this, Dear Lord I find
Your love reached out for me
And opened wide my then closed mind
That I though blind might see
The wonders of Your glorious Light
The breadth and depth of Love
So, I might then find my delight
Seated with You above
If I truly love You, Lord, today
With all my heart and soul
What would I do, what would I say?
If You became my highest goal?
So, help me lord to die to me
Place my desires upon that cross
Until your will is all I see
And there forgetting any loss
I look to you my greatest King
The treasure I desire
As there before Your Throne I sing
Impassioned by a heart on fire
Until my greatest, brightest dream
I know is found in You alone
That trials are not what they seem
While You have made my heart Your Throne
I then could skip with Joy each day
To Know you’re by my side
What would I do? What would I say?
If in Your love I did abide.
Luke 7:
36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
40 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”
So, he said, “Teacher, say it.”
41 “There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?”
43 Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.”
And He said to him, “You have rightly judged.”
Saving Faith Should Bring Devotional Love
44 Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. 45 You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in. 46 You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. 47 Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
48 Then He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 And those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
50 Then He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
DO YOU KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD?
If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord: I urge you to go to my page titled How to Be Saved by clicking on this link. There is nothing more important than this; because, He is the way, the truth and the life. Therefore, I urge you to seek Him today.
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