He Won’t Relent – So Neither Will I

With this new start to my blogging adventure, I want to not only share about Spain, the culture and the family that I have found here, but I want to tell you about things that I am learning and how my relationship with God is growing. So here is a little glimpse of how God is working in my heart right now…

I love how God uses music and lyrics to communicate with me. I believe that God has recently placed a song on my heart that just won’t leave me alone. Sometimes I repeat a single lyric or song over and over again, and this is one of those songs. “You Won’t Relent” by Kim Walker speaks to my heart, and my spirit sings it back to God.

The song is basically a few simple phrases/verses repeated many times. The first verse begins with “You won’t relent until You have it all. My heart is Yours.” If the song were this alone, it would be enough for me. How many times must I continually give myself, my head, my heart, my life to the Lord? I must daily–multiple times daily–give myself to Him. But then I think about it, and have I ever really given God EVERYTHING? I sing that my heart is His, but have I really given it all? I want to. I desperately want to. I want when I sing “My heart is Yours” for my heart, my love, my life to truly be completely His. I’m not quite there yet. So I must repeat–just like the song–and continually give my life to God. He knows and sees my passionate attempts at giving Him everything, even with all the stumbles along the way.

But that isn’t it–I cannot forget about the very first line….”YOU won’t relent until You have it all” and I realize that it is okay, my stumbles are okay. God is NOT going to give up, He won’t relent until He does have my heart, my life, my all. He is right here with me as I learn how to give it all up. I must give up my past, my hurts, my desires, my longings, my control, because when it comes down to it, He is the only thing that is important. And one of the marvelous things about this is that He is here to help me all along. He is showing me things in my past that I need to work through, forgiveness that needs to be given, acceptance and love that I need to have for myself and others, and that I don’t need anyone or anything else–I only need HIM, I only need the love of Jesus to fill me up and overflow out of my life. Though I am still working through these things, and it is a process, sometimes a slow process, I know that He is not relenting. Though I may struggle or give up on things, He is not going to give up on me. My heart is already His now, because I am in the process of giving it to Him, and when EVERYTHING is finally, wholly His alone, it will be a glorious and joyful day! My heart does belong to Jesus. And I am so thankful for His relentless LOVE for me!

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