The Stand- Hillsong United
You stood before creation
Eternity in Your hand
You spoke the Earth into motion
My soul now to Stand
You stood before my failure
and carried the cross for my shame
My sin weighted upon Your shoulders
My soul now to stand
So I'll walk upon Salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
This life to declare Your promise
My soul now to stand
So what could I say?
What could I do?
But offer this heart oh God
Completely to You
I'll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
I'll stand
My soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours
Was just worshipping Him, when it struck me. How can one remain conceited and full of oneself when we realised He is the one who gave it all? Can one actually bear to give up all that one had gotten by His own hands, all the glory, all the relationships, and to undertake all the pain of getting His flesh ripped out with every strike of the cat-o-nine tails, to endure all the humiliation that He faced when carrying that cross to the top of the hill, to go through the agony of having nails driven through His hands and feet, msot of all, to hang on that cross and to outlast all the punishment that God meant for us, and to still superceed that punishment? When we realised that Jesus alone did that for us, every single child of God, even before we came to know Him, that He gave it ALL for us, that He gave up ALL good for us, to take ALL the hurt, ALL the bad, ALL the tears from us, how can one not be humbled?
Honestly, I know for myself, I would be humbled. To be so loved, to be the reason that someone would die for, even when I'm horrid to Him. It's hard for me at least, to not feel in awe or humbled by His perfect love. So any confidence we can have, would then have to stem from Jesus and all that He has done for us, from God's love for us. Coz when we're so humbled, the only way we can still speak with what others may sometimes misconstrue as conceitedness or confidence, is when we know that all the confidence rests in His finished work on the cross, in God's unwavering support of us, and in God's everlasting love for us, the starting reason why He GAVE IT ALL in the first place.
So thank You, Daddy God and Jesus, for everything^^
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