I am not so keen on this genre as it often talks about heartache.
Songs of love gone bad, with words like, how they did me wrong or how my love left me for someone else.
But not every breakup that happens is between romantic partners.
We can be estranged from our family members. Brothers and sisters who refuse to speak, or have anything to do with each other.
Business partners, once great friends, who have a falling out.
Parents separated from their children through relationship breakdowns.
We humans can have relationships in which we have “lost that loving feeling”.
The Bible is a story of a love once lost, and then found again.
The story begins with a great relationship with God and all was going really great.
Then one day the relationship had a break-up, the people took their focus away from God and looked towards their own needs and desires.
Adam and Eve, like us, blamed each other for the breakdown in relationship.
No matter what happened, God stills loved them and wants to restore the relationship.
John 3:16 from the Passion Translation reminds us how much God wanted to restore that relationship.
“For here is the way God loved the world - he gave his only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in him will never perish but experience everlasting life.”
Today, God still wants to meet us in our challenging places and help us rise up out of heartache and into hope.
In a world of uncertainty and anxiety, Jesus promises peace, and he promises us, we are never alone.
No-one is outside the love of God and his offer to bring wholeness, salvation and hope.
The Bible is about a God who sings along with Dolly Parton, “I Will Always Love You".
~ Contributed by Sandra Whyborn of the Deniliquin Salvation Army, on behalf of the Combined Churches of Deniliquin.
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