As a pastor there are very few times when I just get to sit and worship in singing without any responsibilities to preach or lead. It makes those times when I do very sweet and very much needed. Last night was one of those occasions as I just got to sit and worship and be called back to remember the great God, that put His son on the cross because of my sins. I was called to remember the way that Jesus died not so that I could be a better person, or a more powerful speaker, but that He willingly went to the cross, because He desperately wanted to be obedient to His Father, and from that obedience God saves men and women, evil people like myself, and He rescues us from not just the acts that we commit that are deemed sinful, but He rescues us from a nature that is sinful.
Last night as I stood there thinking and remembering the God of the Bible, I was drawn back to Is. 53, one of the most beautiful but at the same time gut wrenching passages in the Scriptures. Here he writes in V. 4-6, "Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteem Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned - every one - to his own way, and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."
But watch this in V.10-"Yet it was the WILL of the Lord to CRUSH Him; He has put Him to GRIEF..."
When was the last time that you thought about this in worship. and you were consumed not by the songs, or the style, or the volume of the music, but you were consumed by and remembered that God killed Jesus, and that His wrath toward MY SINFUL NATURE is absorbed in the cross and His grace is made available to me through faith, belief, and repentance in CHRIST JESUS.
Last night that line of thinking hit me square in the face and affected me in a deep way for the first time in a long time, don't let it be to long for you, make for yourself opportunities to worship and remember the cross. May it have an impact on your mind and your body.
Song of the Week: BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD- Shane and Shane version
LOVE GOD LOVE PEOPLE
About Me
- Fellowship Church Lubbock
- We are not perfect, but we have been saved by the one who is. He did it by grace alone, through faith alone, on the basis of Christ alone, for the glory of God alone, revealed infallibly by the Scripture alone.
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