There are times when words just don’t do the job. There are places so deep within us that speak a language all their own. Not with syllables and verbiage, but with guttural almost primal sounds that express a depth of pain or joy or feeling that words cannot grasp.
You know what I mean. Those sounds that come out of us when we are in the glory and wrenching pain of childbirth. The awful sounds emitted when we are violently ill. The ardent sounds in the throes of passion. The pitiful, bottomless cry of a broken heart.
Those deep places within us escape the reach of the brain and it’s ability to reason and describe. What comes out of us in those times of deepest emotion is straight from the heart and soul. A part of who we are and what we are experiencing at that moment. A natural, uncontrived and non-manipulated response.
Last night I had a dream that I was talking with a woman who was asking me about Jesus and His love. In the dream I tried to talk, but couldn’t find words to describe. I began crying uncontrollably because I so wanted her to know who He was and how much He loved her, but words were falling short and failing me. Because He has touched and impacted me to the very core of my being, the depth of emotion that poured out of me was the only way I could express my love for Him and my desire for others to know and love Him, too.
I hope that on a daily basis, my love for Jesus runs so deep that my life is not robotic or contrived in any way, but a natural, from the gut response that goes beyond “the right words”. I hope that words will never be enough to express my love. I pray that I will live of life of loving with abandon in gratitude and amazement of how He has loved me. Not because I have to, but because I can’t help it. Because I can’t hold it back. Because it defies description.
Because there truly are no words…
Romans 8:26 – In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Ephesians 5:2 – Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
1 John 4:19 – We love because he first loved us.
