For the Love of God
by Michael Doyle

We are offered advice every day
There is no end to what people say
Though some things said are wise
Other things should open our eyes

"For the love of God", said in frustration
Should be redeemed without hesitation
Because God's love is so much more
It is from God that such love pours

Knowing this love is through God's redemption
Loving others becomes our contemplation
Our lives are to be loved as an expression
Of the grace received from our savior's impression

Of God coming down from the mountain to live
In our atonement through the salvation that he gives
We cannot serve the purposes of this sacred love
Without the confidence given from God above

This is a love that doesn't know fear
It's the perfect love in which we persevere
We walk in this love because of what we believe
Loving our brothers and sisters as we best conceive

We shouldn't allow an ungodly world to refine
The words we live by as these words serve to define
Instead, we should lean in to fully understand
Just what it is that our holy God commands

God's love does not come in steps or increments
It is all-encompassing and not degrees of sentiments
Embodying our response to God's loving, full reality
It's the sunlight of life independent of gravity

It is our senses overwhelmed by all the love given
As we walk this life before we are even forgiven
God's love is the primary of all our hopeful consideration
It delivers us from ourselves and feelings of condemnation

When God's love comes, it comes to evict all fear
As we walk further in a love that will disappear
Enabling us to walk in the motives of purity
That invites our souls from hiding and into nobility

We learn to walk in wisdom and degrees of shrewdness 
As we learn to discern beyond this world's rudeness
These allow us to walk away from those things counterfeit
Satan tries his worst to cause our souls to become forfeit

It's a backwards world filled with false illusions
As a dismissive cause forced on us from suffered delusions
Truth walks forward in its clear and certain direction
It is as deeply meaningful as are all of God's corrections

This world's culture distorts humanity's dignity
Without understanding God, we are left in fragility
Somehow missing that we are defined by God's boundaries
We must honor these to properly approach God's divinity

In life, we find our timid souls must learn to love first
Seeking to serve and satisfy the seeker's deep thirst
We do this by acting in ways that bring God's satisfaction
In our every word and in all of our littlest actions

(c) January 7, 2024    Michael Doyle
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