“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me… I once was lost, but now I am found, was blind but now I see…” An old classic hymn, only recently “re-cover-ed” by people like Chris Tomlin, Phil Wickham and Jonas Myrin/Joel Houston… each artist with a background story, a personal revelation, and a desire to communicate a poignant truth about God’s goodness to another generation. I applaud and love them all! Today, I am grateful for the Jonas/Houston version that heads into a chorus, or two or three or sixty one, “Oh I can see you now… I can see the love in your eyes… laying yourself down… raising up the broken to life…” I just can’t take my eyes off of Jesus, intentionally laying down His life for you and me (the Bible is clear that no one took His life from Him that He willingly gave it up for mankind), laying Himself back on that roughhewn timber, no wild-eyed fear, no panicked confusion about what was coming next… His eyes filled with love knowing that each hammer blow on those spikes in His hands and feet was necessary to satisfy the debts of my sin… His eyes fixed (in my case) on a day in 1973 when I would enter a church for the first time and hear His name and softly, tearfully, respond to His sacrifice… His eyes seeing decades beyond knowing that what was so broken and lost was being raised to life! What AMAZING LOVE AND MERCY AND GRACE! And the point was redemption. Real redemption. The recovery of what was gone. The reopening of the way God had planned for mankind. The realignment of God’s purposes for man’s, mine, your, destiny. Can you see it? Can you see what God is after in, and for, your life? A life of intimacy with Him! A life that is alive and gives life to others, just like His! We were meant for so much more than just getting thru life with a religious component tacked on! We were meant to be found and recovered and reignited with a living relationship with a God who was willing to lay down His life for us… and we shouldn’t stop pressing in to obtain the fullness of it until we know we are THERE! (Yep, THERE! A lifelong journey!) Life is full of distractions to make us, keep us, blind… but if you can see Him “there,” laying Himself down, raising you up to life, then you will have opened eyes on the prize! No longer lost – now found – once blind – but now seeing! Yes! That’s a sweet, sweet sound!
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:16:39 +0000
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