During the hot summers in the 70s, when I was bored I would sometimes dream of what would happen if I yelled “Hey Kool Aid” like the thirsty kids did on those TV commercials.
I wished the bright red Kool Aid Man would actually make a grand entrance where I lived and crash through the walls, fences, ceilings or other furnishings in my house, uttering his famous response, “Oh Yea!” and give us all Kool Aid to drink.
I specifically remember being grounded one time thinking of those commercials, and it caused me to smile real big, with the thought of the Kool Aid Man breaking me out of my punishment.
“Oh Yea!” I said to myself like he always did!
Well, although Kool Aid never broke through into my life to save the day, but something else did… the Love of Christ!
I remember a time where His love broke through all my questions, frustrations, and just pure anxiety when I was about 16!
He pulled me out of my despair that day, and I remember His presence filling the room where I was praying as deep as I could.
With my eyes closed, I peered over the edge of the cliff I had made for myself at the end of my rope, and looked down into the depths of the love of God!
Deeper and deeper I looked for the bottom of His Love and there wasn’t one.
I was certain there has to be an end to the depth of His love for me, but I could not find it… and the soberness of that fact grips me to this day.
Like a well, I have drawn from His Love for my issues and to help others with their problems for the last 30 yrs.….there is no other place to be than living out of the depths of His Love.
Years after that experience I discovered the following song from Keith Green… it gave me words to express what had happened to me.
I pray His Love Will Break Through Anything that is between You and Him…
“Your Love Broke Through” –Keith Green
“Like a foolish dreamer, trying to build a highway to the sky
All my hopes would come tumbling down, and I never knew just why
Until today, when you pulled away the clouds that hung like curtains on my eyes
Well I’ve been blind all these wasted years and I thought I was so wise
But then you took me by surprise
Like waking up from the longest dream, how real it seemed
Until your love broke through
I’ve been lost in a fantasy, that blinded me
Until your love broke through
All my life I’ve been searching for that crazy missing part
And with one touch, you just rolled away the stone that held my heart
And now I see that the answer was as easy, as just asking you in
And I am so sure I could never doubt your gentle touch again
It’s like the power of the wind
Like waking up from the longest dream, how real it seemed
Until your love broke through”
1 John 3:1-2 says-
“See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.
For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him…
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be.
We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.…”
I pray His Love Will Break Through Anything that is between You and Him…
Just call out loud to Him like those thirsty kids did for Kool-Aid in those crazy old commercials!
Here He Comes!