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FMF: I’m Your Beloved

Last updated on: February 15, 2013 at 3:08 pm by Osheta Moore

FMF: I’m Your Beloved 2013-02-15T15:08:00-08:00 Osheta Moore

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Yesterday I posted on a Mix tape O’ Love for my husband. It was fun to write that post and even more fun to listen to him read it. Those songs were meaningful, beautiful, exciting, and perfect to communicate our love. So, today, when I received the word prompt for Five Minute Friday, “beloved” I was thrilled. “My Beloved” by Kari Jobe would be one song I would choose that communicates Jesus’ love for me. So today, I’ll write for five minutes on the first time I heard that song and the ways it’s transformed my heart. Before I set the timer, I’ll post the lyrics and spotify html for the song just to make the experience richer for you, my dear reader.

My Beloved Sung By Kari Jobe

You’re my beloved, you’re my bride

To sing over you is my delight

Come away with me my love

Under my mercy come and wait

Till we are standing face to face

I see no stain on you my child

You’re beautiful to me

So beautiful to me

I sing over you my song of peace

Cast all your care down at my feet

Come and find your rest in me

I’ll breathe my life inside of you

I’ll bear you up on eagle’s wings

And hide you in the shadow of my strength

I’ll take you to my quiet waters I’ll restore your soul

Come rest in me and be made whole

You’re my beloved, you’re my bride

To sing over you is my delight

Come away with me my love

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And now:

I’m Your Beloved

I don’t know why I’m still surprised when you show up Jesus and reveal your heart to me. It’s almost comical how small and wan my faith can be. But if Brother Lawrence can meet you at the sink while washing dishes then surely I can meet you while putting away my children’s clothes.

And that’s just what happened.

“Come away with me my love”, you sang because you knew how overwhelmed I felt with the kids, the house, our finances, my marriage. Better than Norah Jones jazzy invitation, Jesus Christ called me to find peace in him.

How did you know I was in such need of you?

Because I’m your beloved.

“I’ll take you to my quiet waters, I’ll restore your soul” you promised because you knew how overwhelmed I felt with the noise in my spirit that I’m not good enough, that I’m a failure, that I’m a disappointment, that I’m sin-stained and unworthy. That I’m too fat, too frumpy, too dark, too different, that I’m ugly and unlovable. Better than One Direction’s observation that “you don’t know you’re beautiful” Jesus Christ called me his bride and sang, “ I see no stain in you…you’re beautiful, so beautiful to me”.

How did you know I was in such need of you?

Because I’m your beloved.

“Come rest in me and be made whole” you invited because you knew the broken pieces caused by anxiety and worry. You knew I needed to find my rest in you and not this world. Better than Ludacris and Usher’s toast to life, “Rest of My Life”, Jesus Christ invited me in the shalom of his presence.

How did you know I was in need of you?

Because I’m your beloved.

So I will delight in you as you delight in singing over me. Tune my ears to your transformative melody my Lord, because I’m your beloved, I’m your bride.

Stop

Wanna join in and meditiate on “beloved”

1. Write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing.

2. Link back here and invite others to join in {you can grab the button code in Lisa-Jo’s blog footer}.

3. Go and tell the person who linked up before you what their words meant to you. Every writer longs to feel heard.

Many Blessings Beloved Ones,

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