You are More

I haven't been as good lately about reading my devotions, but I have been listening to one of the local christian rock stations whenever I'm in my car. There are a few songs that keep really catching my attention. Below is the lyrics to one of them and then a brief thought on what the song means to me.
Tenth Avenue North - You Are More
From the album The Light Meets The Dark
There's a girl in the corner

With tear stains on her eyes
From the places she's wandered
And the shame she can't hide 
She says, "How did I get here?
I'm not who I once was
And I'm crippled by the fear
That I've fallen too far to love"
But don't you know who you are?
What's been done for you?
Yeah don't you know who you are
You are more than the choices that you've made
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes
You are more than the problems you create
You've been remade
Well she tries to believe it
That she's been given new life
But she can't shake the feeling
That it's not true tonight
She knows all the answers
And she's rehearsed all the lines
And so she'll try to do better
But then she's too weak to try
But don't you know who you are?
You are more than the choices that you've made
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes
You are more than the problems you create
You've been remade
You are more than the choices that you've made
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes
You are more than the problems you create
You've been remade
'Cause this is not about what you've done
But what's been done for you
This is not about where you've been
But where your brokenness brings you to
This is not about what you feel
But what He felt to forgive you
And what He felt to make you loved
You are more than the choices that you've made
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes
You are more than the problems you create
You've been remade
You've been remade
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This song is a reminder to me that no matter where I've been or how far I feel I've fallen, I have been remade. This song says how i have felt before. Sometimes when  I'm ashamed of myself and things I've done, I feel that maybe I have fallen to far. At times I can feel that whatever I've done is bad enough that there is no way God would forgive me. But this song reminds me to remember that no matter what I've done I'm much more to God then my sins. Its not about where I've been or what I've done, its about whats been done for me. What God has done is the only thing that matters and the one thing I need to hold on too.
"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved." Ephesians 2:4-5

A Love that Never Fails

I've been struggling a lot lately with different things and I just want to share with you one of the devotions I read in a devotion book I've been reading from Max Lucado's morning and evening Edition "Grace for the Moment"
A Love that Never Fails
"Love never fails". 1 Corinthians 13:8 NIV
"Some of you are so thirsty for this type of love. A love that never fails. Those who should have loved you didn't. Those who could have loved you didn't. You were left at the hospital. Left at the altar. left with an empty bed. left with a broken heart. left with your question "Does anybody love me?
         Please listen to heaven's answer. God loves you. Personally. Powerfully. Passionately. Others have promised and failed. But God has promiseed and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love and His love--if you will let it--can fill you and leave you with love worth giving.
                      So come. Come thirsty and drink deeply. "

This devotion, though short, got to me. Because it was true. I, like many others have,  was and have been searching for a love that never fails. But time and time again I was let down, disappointed, because I was looking in places where it could not be found. We all have people in are lives we we have cared deeply about. Who we have loved. Who we put are full trust in. And who in the end let us down. Hurting us so deeply, that we find this talk of an unfailing love a myth. Something that could possibly not exist. there is no way someone could love me no matter what I did. No matter what choices I have made in my past or what choices I may make in the future. There is no one who will be there for me no matter where I'm at or what hour of the day it is. But after you argue it, and fight it, you can not deny it. It is true. An unfailing love does exist. You just have to look in the right direction. To the heavens. To God who created you and watches over you and will love you unconditionally and through all things. A God who can show you and fill you with a love worth giving.