Beautiful Lord

When the storm is raging all around me
You are the peace that calms
My troubled sea
And when the cares of this world
Darken my day
You are the light that shines
And shows me the way

Oh, the beauty of Your majesty
On the cross You showed Your love for me!

"Beautiful lord" by Leeland

The song of the redeemed

Lord be my infection. Make me highly contagious. Become viral through all who surround me. Infect me with your own nature to the point where I deny my own flesh. Let people walk right past me, look right through me, and not see me. Let it be you that they see, consuming by body, eating my flesh. Become my identity. Rid me of all other cares. Engulf me.
Let it be terminal. I will die to myself. Bury me in the earth with all of my possessions, my earthly kingdom.
Then, once I am no more than a fading memory, an impression in the sand, bring about revival. Breathe life into my spirit. Speak truth into my life. Satisfy me in the morning with your unfailing love. Bring me into your presence. Be my remedy. Restore my soul. Send me into the world to preach good news; to free the oppressed; to provide the poor wanderer with shelter; to clothe the naked and not turn away from my own flesh and blood. Let my light break forth like the dawn. Let my healing quickly appear; let my righteousness go before me and your glory be my rear guard. Then I will call and you will answer; I will cry for help and you will say; Here I am.

A love too deep

"Pilate said, 'Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.'" John 18:31

How can I fathom? Jesus came down from Heaven to live the life of a servant and be handed over to be judged by the world? and yet it agreed to do so? and what does it give him but the death sentence.


"My father, if it is possible may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." Matthew 26:39

And on top of that, the death he faced was not the worst of it. His brutal death and betrayal on the cross was only the outer fringe of what was actually happening. The cup he drank was filled with the wrath of God which was meant for us. All of the sin we have ever committed were on him. As he was mocked and beaten, the nails driving through his hands, he drank the cup that was ours to bear. He has saved us from death.


"For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:17

The world put him away and sentenced him to death as though he were the problem, all the while, he is the remedy. The ONLY remedy. The light in the darkness. The narrow path to life. The savior of the world.


"If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very last words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day." John 12:47-48