If we build our homes on
Sinking sand
When the storm arrives
Do we think we can
Stand on shore
While all that we were
Floats away?
It's like setting sail for a
Distant land
Putting all your trust in the
Captain's hand
When you know all long
That the boat's going
Down
Down
Down
Keep your eyes on the Son
Put your hope in His heart
Your life in His hands
Your trust in His love
Keep your eyes on the
Son
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Kicking Against the Goads
Discovering how truly far-reaching Your grace is has been one of the most humbling experiences of my life, humiliating to my flesh and bone in every way possible. Why do I so despise myself for needing You so badly? Don't we all? Even those who don't know it? As in no other situation, I am no where near being alone in this one thing.
Why, then, is it my core frustration?
For all the love and adoration I have for You, I have that much more self-loathing for being so totally incapable apart from You. But the truth is, like with most things, that what I feel is the exact opposite of what is actually true. My greatest joy in life is my total incapability of functioning apart from You. We are intertwined, involved and complicated, mysterious and beautiful and frightening in how unlikely and yet totally perfect we look together.
I love you more than I can bear at times. For as long as I breathe in this world and into the next, I am Yours. Thank you for Your patience with my ignorant and childish ways. I hope and pray and yet also know unswervingly that neither my ignorance nor my immaturity weary You.
For indeed, nothing does, least of all me.
Why, then, is it my core frustration?
For all the love and adoration I have for You, I have that much more self-loathing for being so totally incapable apart from You. But the truth is, like with most things, that what I feel is the exact opposite of what is actually true. My greatest joy in life is my total incapability of functioning apart from You. We are intertwined, involved and complicated, mysterious and beautiful and frightening in how unlikely and yet totally perfect we look together.
I love you more than I can bear at times. For as long as I breathe in this world and into the next, I am Yours. Thank you for Your patience with my ignorant and childish ways. I hope and pray and yet also know unswervingly that neither my ignorance nor my immaturity weary You.
For indeed, nothing does, least of all me.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Action-Oriented
John 14: 30-31
Jesus went to the cross out of total and complete obedience to the Father's will. There was and still is not an ounce of weakness in Him. The enemy had no hold on Him ever - not in the Garden, not before the Sanhedrin, not in Herod's palace nor in Pilate's court, not at the cross nor in the tomb. Jesus visited these solemn places not out of weakness but out of the strength and the love of a Father that obedience requires.
And He did all of this for our benefit.
Yes, of course, there is the most obvious (but no less powerful, humbling, and awe-striking) benefit - direct access to our Beloved Father by the grace of an all-purifying forgiveness that the cross and resurrection provides for all who believe.
But the example - oh, the beautiful example! - of how to live.
"He [the enemy] has no hold on Me, but the world must learn that I do exactly what My Father has commanded Me."
Everything Jesus did and said on this earth was only ever for our benefit, so that we could watch, learn, and emulate.
The cross is the purest, most beautiful, most sacred example that the power of love and obedience can change the world.
Jesus went to the cross so that we would never have to. But with that action, He also set into motion a responsibility for action.
Jesus went to the cross out of total and complete obedience to the Father's will. There was and still is not an ounce of weakness in Him. The enemy had no hold on Him ever - not in the Garden, not before the Sanhedrin, not in Herod's palace nor in Pilate's court, not at the cross nor in the tomb. Jesus visited these solemn places not out of weakness but out of the strength and the love of a Father that obedience requires.
And He did all of this for our benefit.
Yes, of course, there is the most obvious (but no less powerful, humbling, and awe-striking) benefit - direct access to our Beloved Father by the grace of an all-purifying forgiveness that the cross and resurrection provides for all who believe.
But the example - oh, the beautiful example! - of how to live.
"He [the enemy] has no hold on Me, but the world must learn that I do exactly what My Father has commanded Me."
Everything Jesus did and said on this earth was only ever for our benefit, so that we could watch, learn, and emulate.
The cross is the purest, most beautiful, most sacred example that the power of love and obedience can change the world.
Jesus went to the cross so that we would never have to. But with that action, He also set into motion a responsibility for action.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Where the Lost Are Found
Tattered pages
Scribbled down words
Memories fall from my eyes
Rearranging
Chorus to verse
But I haven't written the lines
Yeah, it's funny
This story I'm in
The plots and the characters
Wear away thin
Winds are raging
Seasons changing
And I'm only moments from
Where I'm beginning
You will ask me
Girl, where do you
Run to when the sun
Goes down
You will find me
Over and then again
Where the lost are found
Scribbled down words
Memories fall from my eyes
Rearranging
Chorus to verse
But I haven't written the lines
Yeah, it's funny
This story I'm in
The plots and the characters
Wear away thin
Winds are raging
Seasons changing
And I'm only moments from
Where I'm beginning
You will ask me
Girl, where do you
Run to when the sun
Goes down
You will find me
Over and then again
Where the lost are found
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