Over the past few days I cannot get over the fact that I seemingly forget the importance and power of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Often I do not live my life as a man who has been set apart to proclaim Good News of my Lord and Savior.
It is overwhelming to consider the deep, passionate, divine love with which my Savior loves me. Not a day goes by that I do not mess up royally and yet He still pursues me with a crazy love that words cannot contain.
I am a sinner, doomed to dust, depraved from birth. And yet Jesus Christ took the weight of my every sin on His shoulders on Calvary. My thoughts are aptly summed up in one of my favorite hymns, "I Stand Amazed in the Presence":
I stand amazed in the presence
Of Jesus the Nazarene
And I wonder how He could love me,
A sinner condemned, unclean.
How marvelous, how wonderful
And my song shall ever be.
How marvelous, how wonderful
Is my Savior's love for me.
My Savior offered His life as a free gift for my life. And praise be to God that the free gift is not like the trespass.
So I stand amazed in His presence. Yearning for Him. Longing to walk ever closer with Him.
"But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. " Romans 5:15
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