{"id":22207,"date":"2014-10-09T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T04:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22207"},"modified":"2014-10-09T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T11:19:44","slug":"solo-el-amor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/09\/solo-el-amor\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00f3lo El Amor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For love I\u2019d do almost anything<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;d cross the widest of oceans<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For love, I&#8217;d fly with an broken wing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Just to taste it for a moment<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For love, I\u2019d turn back the strongest tide<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">There\u2019s no storm I couldn&#8217;t weather<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018Cause it\u2019s more than a gleam in someone&#8217;s eye<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">It\u2019s what holds us all together<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But I&#8217;ve only known once in my lifetime<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Love in its purest form<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He came here for me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Suffered and then died under a crown of thorns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">S\u00f3lo el amor es la salida {<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">S\u00f3lo el amor, only love can save me<\/span><\/em>}<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Limpia, construye, concibe y procres {<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Conquering death and the sting of the grave<\/span><\/em> }<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Tan solo el amor sana la herida {<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Kingdoms will fail and tongues will cease<\/span><\/em>}<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Que alguna vez nos causara el dolor {<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But through all eternity love will remain<\/span><\/em>}<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">S\u00f3lo el amor, when all else has failed me,<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Will take me to places that I&#8217;ve never dreamed<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Healing my wounds and setting me free<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There\u2019s nothing else worth living for<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">S\u00f3lo el amor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Por amor murio crucifecada la esperanza de la humanidad <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">{For love the Hope of humanity made the lame to walk again}<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">El amor es al fruta sagrada {For love He settled the raging sea}<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">La promesa de la libertad { And became the sinner&#8217;s friend}<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">For love He drank of His Father&#8217;s cup<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">With all my shame on His shoulders<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And He offered forgiveness through His shed blood<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Tell me, is it any wonder<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That I\u2019ve only known once in my lifetime<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Love in its purest form<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He came here for me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Suffered and then died under a crown of thorns<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">S\u00f3lo el amor&#8230;only love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9EKuPrzQDKQ?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Performed by Sandi Patty, Miguel Angel Guerra<br \/>\nSongwriters: Donato P\u00f3veda \/ Kelly Minter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This morning I was sitting at my piano playing, and singing along to the words of this song. \u00a0I was struck so deeply by the very first line: \u201c<em>For love I\u2019d do almost anything&#8230;<\/em>\u201d. \u00a0Because I WOULD do almost anything due to the love I have for my family and loved ones! \u00a0You would, too&#8230;I am sure! \u00a0Those of us who are mommas (or grammas!), we know the truth of this feeling in our hearts. \u00a0Y\u2019know the whole \u201cdon\u2019t get between a mother lion and her cub!\u201d thing. \u00a0Definitely a deep, strong, passionate love there. But (as the lyrics go on to tell us) there is a love that goes beyond what you or I have done or could even imagine doing. <strong>The<\/strong><strong> love of Jesus our Savior and Redeemer<\/strong>:\u00a0 \u201c<em>He came here for me, suffered and then died under a crown of thorns.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly&#8230;<br \/>\nBut God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.<br \/>\nRomans 5:6 and 8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son,<br \/>\nthat whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.<br \/>\nJohn 3:16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Despised and rejected by men;<br \/>\na man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief . . .<br \/>\nwe esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.<br \/>\nBut He was wounded for our transgressions;<br \/>\nHe was crushed for our iniquities;<br \/>\nupon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace,<br \/>\nand with His stripes we are healed.<br \/>\nAll we like sheep have gone astray;<br \/>\nwe have turned every one to his own way;<br \/>\nand the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.<br \/>\nIsaiah 53:3-5 (spoken prophetically of our Messiah)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But God\u2014so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy<br \/>\nthe great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,<br \/>\nEven when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses,<br \/>\nHe made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ;<br \/>\n[He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him,<br \/>\nfor] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve)<br \/>\nthat you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ\u2019s salvation.<br \/>\nEphesians 2:4-5<\/p>\n<p>Christ\u2019s death is not only the demonstration of God\u2019s love (John 3:16), it is also the ultimate expression of Jesus\u2019 own love for all mankind. And my part (yours AND mine) is being convicted of this fact: \u201c<strong><em>Christ loved me and gave Himself for me<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d \u00a0And not just convicted&#8230;my\u00a0response (OUR response) should be LOVE. \u00a0\u00a0How do we prove our love for our Savior? \u00a0Simply by our obedience.<\/p>\n<p>No matter where you look in the Scriptures\u2014whether back in the records of the Old Testament&#8230;or in the words of our Lord contained in the Gospels&#8230;or in the doctrine given to the 1st century Church\u2014to say \u2018I love You, o God\u2019 means you choose to obey. \u00a0Here are just three examples:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God,<br \/>\nwho keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousand generations<br \/>\nwith those who love Him and keep His commandments;<br \/>\nDeuteronomy 7:9<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIf you love Me, keep My commands.<br \/>\nWhoever has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me.<br \/>\nThe one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love them<br \/>\nand show Myself to them.<br \/>\n&#8230;Anyone who loves Me will obey My teaching. My Father will love them, and We will come to them and make Our home with them.<br \/>\nAnyone who does not love Me will not obey My teaching. These words you hear are not My own; they belong to the Father who sent Me.\u201d<br \/>\nJohn 14:15, 21, 23-24<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God<br \/>\nand observe His commandments. For this is the love of God,<br \/>\nthat we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.<br \/>\n1 John 5:2 and 3<\/p>\n<p>I would love to leave you with a couple of resources that communicate so beautifully about the love of Jesus demonstrated through the sacrifice of His life for you and me.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a sermon, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Herein Is Love<\/em><\/span>, that Charles Spurgeon preached. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spurgeongems.org\/vols28-30\/chs1707.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> \u00a0Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the second is a book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die,<\/em><\/span> \u00a0that Pastor John Piper wrote. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.desiringgod.org\/website_uploads\/documents\/books\/fifty-reasons-why-jesus-came-to-die.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope that you will\u00a0<del datetime=\"2014-10-09T02:44:06+00:00\">take<\/del> <em>make<\/em> the time, maybe not today but soon&#8230;or perhaps read them as part of your quiet time over a few days. \u00a0As you listen to this song and read through these teachings, my prayer is \u201c&#8230;that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God\u2019s love, and to know the Messiah\u2019s love that surpasses knowledge&#8230;\u201d (Ephesians 3:17-19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For love I\u2019d do almost anything I&#8217;d cross the widest of oceans For love, I&#8217;d fly with an broken wing Just to taste it for a moment For love, I\u2019d turn back the strongest tide There\u2019s no storm I couldn&#8217;t weather \u2018Cause it\u2019s more than a gleam in someone&#8217;s eye It\u2019s what holds us all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[6292,7505,4014,7504,7503,2900,5521,936,7502],"class_list":["post-22207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-charles-spurgeon","tag-jesus-died-for-us","tag-john-piper","tag-love-of-jesus","tag-miguel-angel-guerra","tag-redeemer","tag-sandi-patty","tag-savior","tag-solo-el-amor","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-5Mb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22207"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22212,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207\/revisions\/22212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}