Broken Chains
Friday, October 16, 2009
It's amazing what God can do in one week.
How He can use simple things to touch us so deeply... to remember the magnitude of His everlasting love.
How He puts us in certain situations and brings difficult circumstances, so that His plan for us will come to. And ultimately, we come up tops... because it's God's plan.
Nothing is by coincidence.
And nothing is impossible, with God.
Was reading Wednesday's devotion from FCBC's page.. and it talked about remembering who we are- rightful children of God.
The devotion inserted this a little part of 'Lion King'... and it spoke so deeply into my heart.
Mustafa: Simba (son)... you have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me...
Simba: How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be...
Mustafa: Remember who you are. You are my son, and the true King... Remember...
(It's super 'geng'.. cause 'Lion King' is like the first disney movie I'd ever watched and the first one that ever touched me so much that I was sobbing away in the darkened 'theatre' of my kindergarten class. So for God to use this and show me His love... allowed me to view in from another perspective, and yet have the exact same emotions, if not more... is powerful beyond all words.)
We are saved because of His grace and mercy. But time and again, we defy Him and go into the world with our sinful ways. We live as if we don't know our God. And time and again, He forgives us of our iniquities.
It is only when we finally realise and remember the magnitude of His love that we begin to accept it and start to live right. I yearn to grow so much closer to Him, and to stay forever close to Him. But my human flesh is weak.
That is why we need to rely on God's help. With our meagre abilities and strength... what we can achieve is pathetic. But if we turn to Him... everything will be magnified and we can find true joy and rest in Him. I see His works in me so clearly now and I can't wait for more to unravel. And now is the time to step up to that mission to do His work and bring glory to His name.
What hypocrites we'd be, if we took His grace and just live our everyday satisfied that we are saved. Is that all there is to being children of God?
I pray that everyday I grow that much closer to Him as I take up the cross daily.
Indeed, chains are broken and lives are healed... eyes are opened and Christ is revealed.
As surely as the sun will rise
You'll come to us
Certain as Your words endure
You'll come
Let Your glory fall as You respond to us
Spirit rain
Flood into our thirsty hearts again
You'll come
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