Below is an excerpt from a fantastic monologue... one that hits a little too frighteningly near to home for me, but the final message, the final conclusion here is quite simply, perfect. It seems to be a little too close to placing relationship with someone else on the level with God, which should never happen, but it isn't that, at all. I believe in two being joined as one, in His name. Serving others comes before serving yourself, always... as hard as that can be to accomplish ever so often. Jesus was the greatest role model of them all in putting others first, especially those who can seemingly do you no good. It's the vision driving me, from the inside out, and I feel it might help someone reading, today:
- ...I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sure as He has loved me. I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God's own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart, the very chamber where God has stowed Himself in me. And I will this to my death, and to death it may bring me.
I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for you love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying and dying again.
God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.
-Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz)
