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"A Love Song" by Seek and Surrender: The Three-Stranded Covenant


(By Jasper Tan) We always see people say "I love you" to someone, professing their love to that significant other. But we often see how a marriage united by love easily shreds to tatters, and we ask ourselves, "Why?" Where did it all go wrong? How did something joined together by love easily get broken and be accepted as "falling out of love"? But the biggest thought that comes to mind while listening to Seek and Surrender's latest song, "A Love Song," is: do we really understand what it feels like to love? In Seek and Surrender's song, there are countless lines in which the singer professes his love to his bride. It seeks to highlight the sincerity of his love, the magnanimity, the pureness. But in those lines, there's this line that we all should focus on — "If Christ gave Himself for His bride, Oh, then I'll give myself for mine." Do we know how Christ gave himself for his bride (the Church)? He sacrificed himself willingly. He loved us unconditionally, voluntarily, despite our imperfection and unworthiness. It is this type of love that is demanded of us when we say our I LOVE YOUs to our significant other.

Seek and Surrender - A Love SongThere's really no replacement for what Christian Love really means. If we are deep in our faith and we understand all the teachings in the Bible and have followed Jesus' life closely, then we'll come to understand that the greatest love of all emanates from him. And that is the only example that we need to follow if we indeed want to experience and give the type of love that encompasses all things that the human mind and heart understand. That's the beauty of Seek and Surrender's song. Its deeply emotional profession of Love, but also rooted in our Christian Faith and our understanding of how God loves us. There are a lot of secular love songs that, if you try to understand deeper, you'd feel that it's mostly a one-sided affair that is either self-serving or self-absorbed. Seek and Surrender's "A Love Song" offers a different perspective. And all the respect and love we could accord to another is summed up by this powerful line, "What God joined together, Let no one tear it apart."

(Related scripture: Ecclesiastes 4:12b; Mark 10:9; 1 Corinthians 13:4, 8a;

Matthew 19:6; Ephesians 5:25)

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