I Choose to Love

I was listening to "Choose" by Christy Nockles today, and it really captivated me.

Let me be in love with what You love
Let me be most satisfied in You
Forsaking what this world has offered me
I choose to be in love with You
I will choose to be in love with You

Let me know the peace that's mine in You
Let me know the joy my heart can sing
For I have nothing Lord apart from You
I choose to call on Christ in me
I will choose to call on Christ in me

For in the fullness of who You are
I can rest in this place
And giving over this, my journey Lord
I see nothing but Your face

Let me know that You have loved me first
Let me know the weight of my response
For You have long pursued my wandering heart
I choose to glory in Your cross
I will choose to glory in Your cross

And I bow down...
Humbly, I bow down...
Humbly, I bow down... 
I bow down...

I bow down, I bow down
my beloved- here I am
I bow down, I bow down to You...

This is one of those songs that I could see being swiftly attacked by theological nit-pickers, because it says, I choose to love You. But when you look at the rest of the song, you can see that the singer expresses the fact that God loved us first, and that we respond to the grace offered in Christ. 

When I say "I choose to love", it means that right now, in this moment, I am going to choose to love the Lord more than my stress, more than my time, more than my friends. I choose to be in love with the Lord and no one and nothing else. 

This was particularly intriguing in light of the blessings wall and eucharisteo life. At any moment, we can say, I choose to love You, Lord, and accept the blessings You are bestowing up on me, or we can allow the little things to get under our skin.