How Deep Is Your Love?

So, I was eating breakfast yesterday morning when, suddenly, my mind was awash with a song I haven't heard for quite some time. I'm not really sure where the song came from either. I hadn't heard it recently, but as I began to sing it in my mind the song's lyrics delivered a message that gave me a chill.

I listen to songs these days with the ears of a believer in Jesus Christ. Songs that don't reflect His teachings or the message He brought to a foolish and dying world quickly fade while other songs delivering a heavenly message, whether intentionally of intentionally, suddenly give new life to old memories.

Read the words of this song by the Bee Gees, How Deep Is Your Love, through the filter of Jesus and you will quickly see what I mean.

I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I want to feel you in my arms again
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show

How deep is your love, how deep is your love
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour
You're my savior when I fall
And you may not think I care for you
When you know down inside that I really do
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love

Wow. It almost reads like a hymn. I never thought about this song as being spiritual back in the late 70's but I hear it that way today.

So, how do you answer the song's main question? How deep is your love? How deep is your love for Jesus? Is it casual? Is it superficial? Or is it real? Is it deep? Is it passionate?

According to the Barna Group, 73% of Americans identified themselves as Christians in 2016. The same survey finds that only 35% consider themselves as "born-again". Less than half. Barna defines born again as "individuals have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today and believe that, when they die, they will go to heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior."

Are you born again? It is required to get into heaven according to Jesus.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” - John 3:3

38% of Christians in Barna's survey say they are NOT born again. In light of what Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3, I'd like to ask them, "How deep is your love?"

How Deep Is Your Love? - The Bee Gees
The State of The Church - Barna Group