Keeping The Faith

This week has been so incredibly busy. I feel as if graduation parties, working and summer camps have been running my life. Today, while I was working- I mow lawns with my dad- I was listening to my Hillsong United station on pandora and the song In Christ Alone by the Newsboys came on. I've heard this song multiple times but today the lyrics just completely tangled themselves around my heart. Just read them...

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
‘Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
‘til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand

1. When reading that first sentence... mind = blown. I've been realizing lately that these worldly things are nothing compared to Jesus. So why should I put my happiness, hope and devotion into those 'things' when they will continually fail me? Christ gives us hope beyond this world. In 2 Thessalonians 2:16 it says, "May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope."

2. What love God our Father has shown us! Sending His one and only son to die for our sins?! And more than that, He laid his full wrath onto Jesus Christ! A wrath that was meant to be for us and our sins. Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, sinless and pure took on God's wrath for us. Doesn't that just make you want to shout out your love for the Lord?! Or to fall on your face in thankfulness?!

I love when Jesus sends me a little reminder throughout the day of how sovereign He is.

Have a blessed day!