Beautiful Savior

How overwhelmed and thankful I am that we serve an Almighty God who is infinite in His love and mercy and grace. He is the God of the victorious and the overcomers and the righteous. But He is also the God of the disorganized and the failures and the weak. He is the God of 2nd and 3rd and 4th chances. I often think of the words of Alan Redpath when he asked, "What does God expect of you?" And we would think, obedience and holiness and worship.... But Redpath goes on to exclaim, "Do you know what God expects of you? All God ever expects of you is failure!" Boy, I can do that, Lord! That is one expectation I can meet with flying colors!

But Redpath went on to gently add, "But God knows you need never ultimately fail because He has given you His Holy Spirit." Wow, I fail so frequently. Just look at my pitiful track record at writing in this blog! I fuss at my children. I waste time on the unimportant. I want my own selfish way and think my plan is somehow better than my Lord's. I let pride blind me to my own sin. My priorities get all messed up in my busyness and haste to get everything done on my to do list. I get irritated and impatient. O the list could go on and on. A list of failures.

But then I read God's love letter that tells me that God's perfect, sinless Son died on a cross to take those sins, those failures, those weaknesses, those selfish and prideful ways and covers each and every one of them with His blood. He takes my sin and gives me His righteousness...what an exchange, what a Savior!

How often I take this for granted, but then I see the hideousness of my own sin and I am overcome with amazement and gratitude for what He did for me, for us. The words of "Knees to the Earth" come to mind:

Wonderful Savior

My heart belongs to Thee

I will remember always the blood You shed for me

Wonderful Savior

My heart will know Your worth

So I will embrace You always as I walk this earth

Be blessed, be loved, be lifted high

Be treasured here

Be glorified

I owe my life to You my Lord

Here I am, Here I am...

O that I might always remember the blood He shed for me! Might I daily bless and love and lift Him high. Might I treasure Him with all my heart and glorify Him with all my actions and thoughts and words.

He is so worthy. And we are so unworthy. But He found us of priceless worth...such that no price, no suffering, no betrayal, no humiliation could be too great to redeem the ones He loved. Our beautiful, wonderful Savior--to You be all the glory!