written in church at Easter (rhymes a lot)

We own our guilt and face the cross

and as we give up all we've lost

the Saviour stands on calvary

and pours His blood, all pure and free

to bring redemption, lived and died

buried deep, now glorified

the Resurrection broke our curse 

and through that hope we have new birth

where is it all going

the world's so full of 

people breaking hurting 

crying needing faking

when i feel it overwhelming

nothing in me can i bring to

heal or fix or love or something

what can we give when we're all ripped up inside

only jesus heals those tears and scars

and brings us through and shows us who we are

weight of glory

ever to the cross i turn
after falling times again
for it's there i see true love
and all i could desire
these things i chase forsake again
my earthly loves and fleeting sins
always leave me broken down
and empty all my strivings

   yet at the cross
   i've been brought near
   a wand'ring child
   who loved the world
    but though far off
    you've loved me still
    and all your death
    you died for me
    and on the cross
    you gave it all

everything you were it cost
the consummation of the world
all your glory cast aside
to save a wretch like me

[the cost of the cross was Christ, all he owned and giving it up,
to own the death we all deserved
and being cut off from eternal love and fellowship
that was all His right and forfeiting His claim to His glory.
He knew the cost and gladly paid it
loving us and knowing the weight
of glory that was invested in this plan.
Our right response is to give our lives because
they are nothing in compare
with what He gave up
(even if His was only a temporary suspension)]

{The weight of our sin and the Weight of His glory}
  [our sin drags us down, but we can exchange it for His glory which will lift us up]

scribble during a sermon

God's glory is inextricably tied

to His inherent worthiness and 

His righteousness, Justification

is wrapped up in God's glory

because in our salvation God

credits to us (who have no glory of our own)

a righteousness we never had,

the righteousness of Christ

and the righteousness of

Christ is a glorious thing,

reflecting the Father's glory,

so where there was nothing

worthy, whole, or beautiful,

Christ sets up His throne 

and supplies that all that lacked

and exhibits the glory

by showing His righteousness

through a plan that

 fulfills justice and mercy

and love and wrath

our righteousness is not

our own

but our salvation becomes

a showcase of the glorious

righteousness of

God.

infinite.

windfall of grace

face to face with the cold

i stand on the edge

still awaiting the storm

all the breakers are rolling

and crashing around

i'm on the edge

of the last solid ground

about to fall 

but holding on

spread my arms against the wind

and sing my love to all the fray

and know this infinite place.

the love of [God]

One who is loved by a beautiful other may look at the other person and feel unworthy of their love, insecure and unsettled within by knowing who they truly are and seeing themself with eyes that compare with others and expose every flaw, no matter how small. This person may think, "How could someone so high above me love something like me? They surely are only pretending to love me for a time, soon enough they will grow tired of me, realize that I can never be worthy of them and pass over me for a creature of beauty far beyond my compare."

this is humanity

So we are with God. We see His infinite beauty and are rightly humbled in ourselves. We know who we truly are and can see it with an eye that critiques and searches to the recesses of ourselves. We gauge our wickedness and unworthiness rightly, [but God] who has seen us far before we were a thought, or our parents existed, or the worlds were formed, although He sees us with an eye far more astute than ours, knowing all our sins, and He knew we were ugly and fallen and broken and dead, but because of His son, our perfect great lamb, we are to Him,

   Righteous. Clean. Lovely. 

   Sinless. Whole. Restored.

       and Beautiful.

      [He sees Christ]

And that is all the fitness He requires.

Just to see our need of Him.

And we are loved with

everlasting 

love unchanging,

never ending, never failing.

Who we are in Christ

is all we really ARE

 

lyrics ins arial

Picture from Flickr, Lyrics by Owl City, Made by me. :)