Teach me to Love

Teach me to love deeply

Beyond the surface of what I see

Teach me to love enthusiastically

Emphasizing all the freedom that true love brings.

Teach me to love unconditionally

When rejection is all I see

Teach me to love purely

Allowing you to meet all my needs

Teach me to love willfully

by softening my heart while bending my knees

Teach me to love obediently

Even those I would call my enemies

Teach me to love sacrificially

When only your eyes will see

Teach me to love generously

Out of the abundance that flows from thee

Teach me to love wisely

When temptation would bring me to my knees

Teach me to love righteously

Because not all love flows from thee

Teach me to recognize love

When it’s not what I expected to see

Far too often I have seen love

And fought him as my enemy

Teach me to love

by captivating and refining my taste.

Sin no longer can hold or seduce me

when my heart is satisfied in your embrace

Teach me to love others

by helping me abide in you

Allowing your love to move me

as I bind my heart to follow you.

In His Presence Daily