MONDAY May 24, 2010

YOU ARE MY STRENGTH (Hillsong)

You are my strength, strength like no other reaches to me.  You are my hope, hope like no other reaches to me.  In the fullness of Your Grace, In the power of Your name, You lift me up, You lift me up.  Unfailing Love.  Jesus, You are my strength, I worship You.  I praise You, You love me, It is amazing!!!  You know my every move, You walk with me.  I cannot leave You behind, You live within my heart.  Forgive me for putting others and other things ahead of You.  Change my heart so that I might reflect more of Your glory as I walk out my life.  You lift me up, so that I might sit with You in High Places.  Keep the vision in my heart of the day that I reached up and You reached down.  You pulled me out and put Your arms around me and loved me like I had never been loved and never will be loved. 

Yesterday morning in church, I was impressed with this thought.  The world is teaching that we can find the peace and love that we crave if we look within ourselves with kindness.  We can love ourselves by learning that we have good inside us and finding that good will leads to self love and through that we are overcomers.  That teaching goes against the truth of God.  The Bible says that ALL of our righteousness is as “filthy” rags.  There is nothing good about us, except Jesus and HIS righteousness.  We can’t be good enough.  It is only after we accept His goodness that we are good.  It’s because of Him and because of His Grace we are all on a “level playing field”.  Whether we think “we are” of we think “we aren’t”, it makes no difference.  We are because He is, not because we are. 

I pray you can understand what I am saying.  We have no good, He is ALL GOOD, ALL THE TIME, IN EVERY SITUATION, HE IS PERFECT.  He is God and there is none like Him.  Within Him is the Perfection that we are looking for.  In Him ALL our dreams are fulfilled, ALL victory is won.  Standing behind Him, we find the Peace that we are all craving.  Standing behind Him is the protection that we need to conquer all the Giants in our lives.  He is our strength, He is our hope.  Today I am

Being made perfect because of Christ,

Mary Ann

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