It would be enough to say that God is filled with mercy don't you think? What else could I ask for than for a merciful God? One who looks past my indiscretions this week because I've been made alive through Jesus Christ. It's easy to look at this week and see my frustrations, faults, laziness, lack of mercy, selfishness, lack of meditating on the Word (stemming from a lack of reading the Word), indecision, monumental doubt, mockery, contempt, corrupt speach, pride, and the list could go on indefinitely.
The great gift comes in the Holy Spirit using unusual means to bring about repentance. Don't know if I'm completely there as I'm still in the process of naming my sin from just the first part of this week and expressing gratitude for Christ's covering of those transgressions.
As I hit the play button on my cd player this morning I'd left DC*B's Church Music in from yesterday night, and it started playing. When I got to #9, I was already under conviction, but that conviction turned to the welling up of tears (which I'd say is quite embarrassing with 20+ co-workers with 20 feet of my desk). Each time I repeated the song another lyric or part of the "How He Loves" brought me to the point of tears, and I continued to repeat over the past hour and a half as I started naming my sin. I was greatly reminded of what GRACE has done and how I'm covered in it. As John Piper says, "we should realize we're in a pit and when we stand up we're dripping with more grace". I wish I could put up the video, but my work compute blocks sites with "streaming media" so look it up on youtube then read Ephesians 2:1-10 (this passage kept echoing through my mind while the song played) & tell me what you think and in what ways you're reminded of what indelible grace and abounding mercy have done for you.
"How He Loves"
He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.
We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
And Heaven meets earth like an unforseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…
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forgive the typos/misspellings...had 10 mins. of my break to type it. By the way, I shouldn't have put the John Piper statement in quotes because it was a paraphrase not a quote. The actual quote is from his sermon "How to Keep on Going: Relying on Future Grace" which was "may the hole be deep, deep, deep and may you be at the bottom of it with grace all over you." My paraphrase was horrendous, & I apologize to Dr. Piper and you who happen upon this page.
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