You know how much song lyrics of all kinds mean to me. Even popular songs sometime come to mind with precious memories attached to them. Today, it was an old Alan Jackson song with these touching words. “Two young people without a thing say some vows and spread their wings and settle down with just what they need living on love. She don’t care about what’s in style, she just likes the way he smiles. It takes more than marble and tile when you’re living on love. Two old people without a thing, children gone but still they sing side by side on that front porch swing living on love. He can’t see anymore and she can barely sweep the floor, but hand in hand they’ll walk through that door just living on love. Living on love, buying on time, without somebody nothing ain’t worth a dime. It’s like an old fashion story book rhyme living on love. It sounds simple, that’s what you’re thinking, but love can walk through fire without blinking. It doesn’t take much and you’ll get enough living on love.”
Have you ever lived on love? There were several times in our marriage that those words sure described Carol and me, when our love for each other and our mutual love for God held us together and brought us through. It is during those times that we discovered what was most important to us and love became our most prized possession. Even in literature, we find the power of love expressed. Lord Byron wrote, “Love will take you down paths where wolves fear to prey.” That old skeptic, Mark Twain, in one of his last writings, depicted Adam as an old man kneeling beside Eve’s grave and saying, “Where she was, there was paradise.”
Of course the greatest love story of all is found in the Bible. From the creation of the Universe to the creation of a new heaven and a new earth, God’s love is found from cover to cover. But God’s love is never more amazingly described than in John 3:16. “For this is how God loved the world; He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” That is how much God loves you and me.
Whether you are, like me, basking in the glow of precious memories; currently living on love with your soul mate; or haven’t found that person yet with whom you can live on love; we can all wrap ourselves in God’s unfailing love; living on love with Him now and for eternity.