The Power of Your Name
by Lincoln Brewster

{Verse 1}

Surely children weren't made for the streets
And fathers were not made to leave
Surely this isn't how it should be
Let Your Kingdom come

Surely nations were not made for war
Or the broken meant to be ignored
Surely this just can't be what You saw
Let Your Kingdom come
Here in my heart

{Chorus}

And I will live to carry Your compassion
To love a world that's broken
To be Your hands and feet

I will give with the life that I've been given
And go beyond religion
To see the world be changed
By the power of Your name

{Verse 2}

Surely life wasn't made to regret
And the lost were not made to forget
Surely faith without action is dead
Let Your Kingdom come
Lord break this heart

{Bridge}

Your name is a shelter for the hurting
Jesus, Your name is a refuge for the weak
Only Your name can redeem the undeserving
Jesus, Your name holds everything I need

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The first half of the chorus IS my heartbeat.

"I will live to carry Your compassion,
To love a world that's broken
To be Your hands and feet"

It is not so true that loving God only encompasses us loving Him, and us having a relationship with Him.

It is more accurate that to love God is to love ALL of Him, and in that, we love ALL that He represents.

That means loving His earthly kingdom as much as we long to see His heavenly dwelling.

That means sowing into the House of God; giving our best and all to it, because His church is His bride, to which He is returning to in time to come.

That means loving His people - the ones that He chose to die for, just as He did for you and me - regardless of race, gender or self-preference because it is His desire that "none should perish but all to come to the saving knowledge of Him" (2 Peter 3:9).

That also means loving where He has placed you. No matter how bleak the situation is in the nation that you are, you will get down on your kness and begin to cover it lovingly with your tearful prayers instead of tearing it down with bitter words of condemnation.

Ultimately, it means allowing the love of Christ Jesus to shine through us, to our love-starved planet. It means carrying the compassion of Christ in our hearts and sharing it with our morally decaying society.

It means stepping out to make a difference, in your world.

Loving God no longer means (it never has, to begin with) spending time with Him solely where once that is taken care of, it's a job well done.

Loving God means allowing His love to be shed abroad in your hearts, flowing from His throne of grace, soaking your hearts full and from it, that precious love overflows to all that is in your world.