tonight i watched the Good Friday sermon on the Joshua House (the young adult church of vineyard Columbus). it is absolutely amazing and i recommend it to anyone with 30 minutes to spare (so that means everyone). but girls, honestly i am so changed. i feel hit so deeply with the sacrifice Jesus made for me. it made it so much more real, and my petty problems so small. like i cannot control myself for 5 minutes and yet Jesus laid down His life in utter obedience to christ. how magnificent is that? well to me its a lot more magnificent now. i am so dumbfounded by how he loves us. it is so impossible to fathom the true extent of his love for us, a people who daily turn our backs on Him, our one consistent action. his love for a people so quick to deny His power in our lives, so quick to chose something, anything, over him. how could anyone love a people so disrespectful, hurtful, thoughtless, disloyal? well thank God he wasn't just someone. He was the Son of God. and hallelujah forever. i am just so thankful for all he has done
he has given me such a different outlook and an intimate, tangible love. i feel it pressing down on my chest, filling me and overwhelming me. He still chose to create us, He still chose to love us, He still chose to DIE for us. giving up everything. absolutely everything he lived for, so that i could sit here on my high horse and feel entitled to worldly things.
oh how beautiful He is and how undeserving I am. oh how he loves us. the most wonderful mystery.
just thought i'd share
xoxo
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