You know that I love you

Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you. (John 21:17)

Lord, you know that I love you.

Yet you also know that my love for you is far from perfect.

Sometimes I might be so enthusiastic for you that I’d jump into the ocean to go and greet you.

But other times…

Is it possible I could even deny you?

Lord, how does a love so perfect and pure accept a love so imperfect and so impure?

But Lord, you know all things.

You know that I love you.

And yet somehow, for now, that’s enough for you.

You loved me before I ever loved you.

Now by your faithfulness, perfect my love just as you did with Peter’s.

In the meantime, stumbling, faltering steps of a child though I may often take, I follow you, my good Lord.