there's a song by Hillsong United called "To Know Your Name" (search it on youtube, it's amazing) and one of the lines is "Your grace has overwhelmed my brokenness..." I was worshiping to this song and began weeping at this line. I visualized our brokenness and His grace overtaking it, completely covering it up to where you can't see it anymore. 1 Peter 4:8 came to mind - "...love will cover a multitude of sins." I immediately understood what it meant. it's His love literally covering our sins, imagine a blanket, to where you can't see them anymore, they don't exist in His eyes. His great love for us causes our sins to be invisible. it's more than sins too - it's all our struggles, pains, anxieties, failures....our brokenness. in the context of this song, His grace - His enabling ability, His power and mercy - completely overtakes these things and makes them go away. i was weeping because i could feel it, His grace coming at that moment, descending upon my stresses and doubts, and overwhelming them...they disappear.
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Good stuff! Hope you are doing well. Keep working on your chest voice!
ReplyDeletehallelujah! i could use that about now... :) thanks for the lift. love.
ReplyDeleteechoing Christie... hallelujah! and not only is God a blanket in that sense (Love covers a multitude of sins) he is also the fixer-upper who fixes things (perfect Love casts out all fear). On top of the wonderful peace that God gives us in times of trouble (how awesome and wonderful and magnificent that is!) he gives us the answers, fixes, solutions we need in those times of trouble. How awesome is Grace.
ReplyDeletep.s. I love seeing you in the zhop video on the side of the blog haha
love to you!
it's so amazing what Jesus has done. every time i come back to that -- back to the first revelation of His forgiveness, Him on the cross, the first thing we all recognized when we got saved -- i just get so overwhelmed all over again. it's so simple but so amazing and incredible. ... like christie said, hallelujah! :)
ReplyDeletethanks so much for sharing your heart, irina, i love hearing encouragement through you :)