Last week the choir sang It Is Well - the last time I sang that anthem as a choir member, I was on day five or six of an 8-day regimen of 250 mg Clomid after what we believe to have been a chemical pregnancy. To say I lost it in the choir loft would be an understatement. I think I may have shared that before. When we get to the 3rd verse of the song, if I'm in the choir loft I admit to having to disengage my brain from what I'm singing because if I really think about it, I am so overwhelmed, I lose it - even without the added benefit of massive amounts of fertility drugs.
My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
Wow. Buddy, if that's not good news I don't know what is. I love to sing that hymn. Love it.My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
This week, after going to Oklahoma City to say goodbye to my grandmother I've thought a lot about God's grace. And today one of the songs for worship was I Stand in Awe of You. A lot of people sing the first verse and chorus - but not everyone is familiar with the 2nd verse. And it's the 2nd verse that has the BEST news in it.
You are beautiful beyond description
Yet God crushed You for my sin
In agony and deep affliction
Cut off that I might enter in
Who can grasp such tender compassion
Who can fathom this mercy so free
You are beautiful beyond description
Lamb of God who died for me©
Yet God crushed You for my sin
In agony and deep affliction
Cut off that I might enter in
Who can grasp such tender compassion
Who can fathom this mercy so free
You are beautiful beyond description
Lamb of God who died for me©
I got to "cut off that I might enter in" and was bowled over. He who knew no sin was made to be sin on {my} behalf that {I} might have the righteousness of God in Him. "Who can grasp such tender compassion? Who can fathom this mercy so free?" Beyond the sovereign grace of God - no one can.
You are beautiful beyond description; Lamb of God who died for me
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You are beautiful beyond description; Lamb of God who died for me
©1987 People Of Destiny International (Admin. by PDI Ministries)
All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
2 comments:
Hey, we must have been bookends in the choir loft. You crying in the altos and me in the sopranos...same song, same verse. God is so good, so gracious. :)
I'll join you from the congregation LOL! I can't seem to make it through any hymn we sing right now- I can just hear my Dad standing next to me and singing the bass line and then I think about him singing in the choir up in heaven and I start to lose it. I need to restock the tissue supply in my purse, I ran out over a week ago.
God's grace is wonderful, and I don't wish my Dad back from heaven, but I sure do miss him! I am looking forward to the day I get to see him again (and Jesus too!).
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