It’s so simple! It’s so beautiful! It’s so unfathomably gracious!
So loving, undeserved, and the largest, most Amazing process we can/will ever be blessed to be a part of!
It makes perfect sense!
God provided for us a way that we can escape from the dismal failures that our lives are without Him!
We, though our fleshly selves are broken, messed up failures, have been given the opportunity to become perfect saints of God who are no longer slaves to our terrible intrinsic nature!
We can be made new people, NEW PEOPLE!
We still mess up, we still make mistakes, but the mistakes aren’t our own mistakes, but the mistakes of our old natures that we will one day be purged of completely!
Yes, you read that correctly! We aren’t judged based on our old natures, but on the NEW natures that God has created us by. Natures that know no sin!
Not only did you do this when nothing was making you, Lord, you laid your own life down to complete the process! Your love is Strong! Stronger than the anything else the universe will even know.
So.
Yes, so.
So then I should be SO THANKFUL for this completely undeserved grace God has given that I should love nothing less than to, and be completely unsatisfied unless I use ALL of my resources, time, money, love, life, opportunities, and everything else that I have been given (that pales in comparison to this awe-inspiring amount of grace that I have been granted), for the continual worship and adoration and thanksgiving to the One who allowed me to be part of such a beautiful process!
Because how could I not be THAT thankful for such an undeserved, unearned gift?
It is all so perfect.
It all makes so much sense.
May I never lose the wonder, the wonder of the Cross!
May I see it like the first time, standing as a sinner lost!
Undone by mercy and left speechless, Watching wide-eyed at the cost.
May I never lose the wonder, the wonder of the cross!
May I always be in wonder at the amazing, awesome things you done for Your undeserving Church, Lord.
Amen.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
And AMEN!
January 27th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
this made me smile
January 27th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Great word Zach!