Lenten Devotional AT40 Day 7, Love Me Harder, Ariana Grande

Lenten Devotional AT40 Day 7, Love Me Harder, Ariana Grande

The video for this song is a bit salacious.  If you have read the Song of Solomon you know that the Scriptures can get just as racy as Ariana Grande.  If you can hang into the video until about 2:43 you will encounter this wicked water effect that reminds me of the waters of baptism.  Baptism is not only an initiation into the church, its also a kind of merger into the life of God.   As we take on the life of God through the waters of baptism it doesn't matter if we are an infant or an adult, none of us can predict how hard living into the baptismal vow is going to be.

There will be times in our Christian lives when staying in love with God will require loving harder.  These are those moments when we are nearly completely annoyed with the people that God has put before us.  Or the times when we are nearly completely annoyed with our own lives.  That's when the loving get hard. Yet hear the good news.

Whilst Ariana song goes:

So what do I do if I can’t figure it out?
(You got to try, try, try again, yeah)
So what do I do if I can’t figure it out?
(I’m gonna leave, leave, leave again)


God will never, no never abandon you!  When you can't figure it out.  Try, try, try again.  And then if you still can't figure it out, stay open to the Spirit of God.  For as Romans 8:26 reads:

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes[a] with sighs too deep for words.

What do you think?