At one point in the Moody Blues's song Question, we hear the singer say, "I'm looking for someone to change my life, I'm looking for a miracle in my life. And if you could see what it's done to me to lose the love I knew could safely lead me to the land that I once knew, to learn as we grow old the secrets of our soul."
Rock songs of course, as do most musical genres, talk often about love gained and love lost, a love that was once enjoyed but which is now gone, a love that had been the greatest joy of one's life now longer here. The love which Question describes is no different. To have it back, the song opines, to have it restored would be a miracle, a life altering miracle that would lead the one once so loved to a beautiful place of glory and repose, a place in which he would learn the secret of his soul.
Anyone who has been (or is) in love will testify to its ability to take the lover and beloved to new depths of who they are, new insights into what most makes them tick. It's like peeling an onion. With each passing year, more layers display and unfold. Hiddenness becomes visible, secrets are revealed, and life becomes progressively richer. Love grows us beyond ourselves.
This is precisely what God wants to do with his love for us. He wants us to know it as the molder and restorer of our hearts, the healer of our souls, that which unpacks the secrets of everything we are. Most importantly, however, he wants us to see it as the path to genuine destiny: eternal fellowship with our creator.
And to forever grow in the secrets of all that is.
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