Is There Room In Your Heart?

I heard in my heart this week as I was out for my walk that God wants to expand the capacity of my heart to love more. I remember growing up how I loved people. I loved to share my heart with them. I loved to minister to them. I just believed that love was the key.

After having lived some life, pain came along. Rejection. Hurt. Frustration. Fear. Man I just lost faith in people either preceived or real. I felt my pain was real but now looking back I wonder if it wasn't just preceived.

That day on my walk, I not only heard that but I felt it. I felt as if something had been restored. I felt as if something that I had lost was returned to me. Restoration is more than gaining back what may have been lost. Restoration is the expanding of the capacity to hold above and beyond what had been lost. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation: a greater capacity to love people for who they are. Let's begin to stir up the desire, the craving for it. Not to just have things return to "normal" but to have the expansion of our hearts to be the encouragement to one another that we were designed to be.

This song I wrote is what I believe God is saying to us, His church, His people...I pray it challenges us to think a bit outside of the box.


Is There Room In Your Heart

Is there room in your heart for more
Is there room in your heart for Me to move
Is there room in your heart to love
Is there room in your heart

Do you love only those who love you in return?
Do you love only those who believe like you?
Do you love only those who are easy to love?
Do you love only those who are in the fold?

I long to expand the capacity of your heart
To embrace those I have a desire to see in My Kingdom
I long to expand the way you think
And love those who are longing for a home a place where they belong

Will you love those whose hearts are broken beyond repair
Will you love those who don't know what they do
Will you love those who curse My name
Will you love those who won't darken the door of a church

What about those who are so alone and depressed
Who have nothing positive to say or think or feel
Will you love them without a word spoken
Just let it be shown and known by what's in your heart

Clayton A Stairs, January 15th, 2010