| Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. |
| —Psalm 90:14 |
There’s a famous “Beatles” song… What’s that? Oh! You’re a Millennial, or a Gen Z, or even a Gen Alpha. I understand. The “Beatles” was a musical goup that Paul McCartney was a member of before he formed the band “Wings.” What’s “Wings” you say? “Wings” was the group that Paul McCartney … Oh, never mind.
As I was saying, there’s a famous “Beatles” song entitled “All You Need is Love.” The lyrics include these words:
Love, love, love, love, love,
love, love, love, love.
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.
Nothing you can say, but you can learn
How to play the game
It's easy.
Nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save that can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do, but you can learn
How to be you in time
It’s easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown.
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where
You're meant to be
It’s easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
All you need is love. (All together now).
All you need is love. (Everybody).
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
Love is all you need.
Love is all you need.
Not only in this song from July of 1967, but in countless songs before and since, love plays a critically important role in the message of the lyrics. Some say that “love” is the most important of all our emotions. As I’ve shared several times before on this blog, the Greek culture from more than 2,000 years ago actually had four distinct words in Koine Greek that became translated into the word “love” in the English language: agape, storge, phileo, and eros.
When we consider the relationship with the Trinitarian God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—love plays such a critical role that we can hardly find adequate words to express its importance. The word “love” appears 686 times in the New International Version of the Bible. God’s entire relationship with the humans He created derives from His amazing love.
In his prayer, recorded in Psalm 90, Moses expresses the importance of love in the lives of the children of Israel. Love was a compelling force to bring them out of Egypt and into a forty-year-long journey through the desert, until God brought them to the Promised Land. Note what Moses wrote, as recorded in Psalm 90:14:
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
The only element of our lives that will truly satisfy is God-breathed agape love. The power of this love is indescribable. It has no boundaries. It cannot be contained. It has a life-force of enormous proportions. That’s why, at the beginning of this new day, we should take a moment to ask God to fill us full-to-overflowing with His abiding and unfailing love. He longs to do this, if we would only ask. And, the result is beyond our imagination.
Based on a blog originally posted on Thursday, November 29, 2018
