I love those mornings when I wake up with a song in my head and heart! It seems to set the tone for the day for me when I wake up worshipping God mindful of how wonderful He is. I particularly love it when it happens on a Sunday morning. \u00a0Why? Because my personality type + being a pastor + an insane week where I feel my sermon is not up to par, the truth of God\u2019s person and power have overridden my tendency to wake up obsessed with doing or worry. \u00a0This morning I woke up to the heart and mind in harmony singing, \u201cGod, You\u2019re So Good\u201d (Hillsong). \u00a0Before my eyes even opened I heard the opening line…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amazing love –\u00a0That welcomes me –\u00a0The kindness of mercy Sometimes we can feel like we are frauds when we sing lyrics that claim truths we are simply not feeling or experiencing. How can I claim I am healed when I am still sick? Or holy when I am struggling with sin? Or whole when I know I am a Christian, a new creation, but still feel somewhat shattered? The Christian faith is filled with experiences of truths of our temporary physically broken world meeting our spiritually empowering eternal world. When the bridge of this song came up I was reminded again how a life of faith is filled with realities now and not yet. \u00a0We are transformed and being transformed. \u00a0We are saved and will be saved. We are sanctified and are being sanctified. Holy and being made holy. \u00a0How can this be? It is a glorious part of Christianity! What God demands God provides and how God sees us is in harmony with how God is making us.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am blessed, I am called,\u00a0I am healed, I am whole And should this life –\u00a0Bring suffering –\u00a0Lord, I will remember What has Calvary bought for me? Through Jesus\u2019s sacrificial loving suffering, he has bought us freedom and favour for all eternity. We get to bask in the love and goodness of God forever. Such a great reminder of perspective! \u00a0Do we let our current circumstances of trouble and suffering form the lens\/filter with which we see God? OR, do we let the goodness and love of God be the lens with which we observe our temporary circumstances on earth? \u00a0The first can only end in questions, disappointment and possibly anger. The second, brings peace that passes all understanding \u2014 hope for the future \u2014 a sense of not being alone \u2014 an knowledge of being loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May your Sunday be filled with good things from our good God. \u00a0You are blessed and called. \u00a0You are highly favoured, anointed, and filled with God\u2019s power. But best of all…you are loved with God\u2019s amazing love that welcomes you. ?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love those mornings when I wake up with a song in my head and heart! It seems to set the tone for the day for me when I wake up worshipping God mindful of how wonderful He is. I … Continue reading
That bought with blood, wholeheartedly –\u00a0My soul undeserving
\u2003God, You’re so good,\u00a0Oh God, You’re so good
\u2003God, You’re so good,\u00a0You’re so good to me
Behold the cross –\u00a0Age to age –\u00a0And hour by hour
The dead are raised, the sinner saved –\u00a0The work of Your power<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am saved in Jesus’ name
Highly favored, anointed,\u00a0Filled with Your power
For the glory of Jesus’ name
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I AM blessed, called, healed, whole, saved in Jesus name! \u00a0I AM highly favoured, anointed and filled with God\u2019s power for the glory of Jesus name. \u00a0That is my reality now and in the future. \u00a0How can we NOT sing of God\u2019s goodness and love?! \u00a0All of our unworthiness, and self-obsession with our unworthiness, ceases to be blockers of grace. All of our brokenness does not make us unattractive to God. \u00a0The love of Jesus and the glory of Jesus become the impetus for and the conclusion of us being highly favoured and empowered. \u00a0And in those moments where we are tempted to let suffering overshadow and redirect our attention destroying our joy and hope….<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What Calvary has bought for me –\u00a0Both now and forever
\u2003God, You’re so good,\u00a0Oh God, You’re so good
\u2003God, You’re so good,\u00a0You’re so good to me<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n