Love Like This

Lauren Daigle's “Love Like This” sets the singer's emptiness against God's supply in a set of paired images. “When I am a wasteland, You are the water. When I am the winter, You are the fire that burns.” The lines continue with a long night met by sunrise, and a desert met by a river “that turns to find me.” In each pair God moves toward the need and the singer does nothing to start it.

The chorus asks the question underneath all of it: “What have I done to deserve love like this?” The second verse answers with a picture of searching. “You say there's a treasure and You look till You find it, You search to find me.” The bridge states the conclusion in one line, “I cannot earn what You so freely give,” and the song closes on a single “Hallelujah.” The brevity of the lyric keeps the focus on that one thought.

Being unable to earn it is Ephesians 2:8-9, salvation by grace and not works. A God who searches until he finds the lost matches the shepherd in Luke 15:4, and water in the wasteland recalls Isaiah 43:19.