Thinking this morning about my reading in Romans... God's law, the law of sin, and how you can be a slave to both of them. As I was pondering God's law, though, I realized it's really nature's law too. Because God isn't just a belief, it's reality. It's life. It's not just a way of thinking about nature, but a part of it. The two are inseparable.

God's grace is a different thing though. It's not "just a part of nature". It's a highway God gives us as a way out of nature, out of decay, out of self (because it is now decay of nature =) - something that will pull us out of the misery we've created for ourselves since we pulled away from God. God didn't create death and the fires of hell - it's the way we've chosen for ourselves because of our sin. In fact, if the world had continued to go as He had originally planned it - we'd still probably be in the Garden of Eden. And yet, there are so many who can't accept that God is a good Father. They can't accept that God is reality, for that matter.

This is what I'm sure of, I can only show love
When I really know how loved I am
When it overtakes me, then it animates me
Flowing from my heart into my hands

So I'm praying, Father, help my heart believe
That right now You're singing over me
And fill me up with Your love

Love, take these words that I'm speaking
Love, take these thoughts that I'm thinking
Love, take me over
Love, fill up all of my space and
Love, come stand right here in my place
Love, hear this prayer that I'm praying
Love, take me, love, take me over
Love, take me over

-Love Take Me Over, Steven Curtis Chapman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8DiZhNVu1I

Lord, take over my life with your love, so that my life sings of it forevermore! So that my life shines with the joy that comes from your presence, until others want you too. So that they know you are God, so that they know you are good!