I Believe in You

From time to time someone will say something radical or visionary, enabling you to understand something dear to you in a completely different way. One line in a song on the latest U2 album had such an impact upon me recently:

"It's not 'if I believe in love',

but 'if love believes in me.'"

I have often wondered if the word love is a cypher for God in some U2 songs.

Either way, I think there is far too much said about people's need to 'believe in God' without enough mention of God's belief in them. Too often, we have put the cart before the horse in this regard, wondering why our journey is so awkward.

This lyric fit so well with my understanding of God and something deep, previously adrift, just seemed to slot into place. I can believe in a love (or a God) who believes in me. Love that believes in me, believes in us, opens up the future to freedom.

It's not 'if you believe in love'... Love believes in you!

And out of that love, in that love, we can breathe and live.