Back around Easter, I posted the lyrics to the song below. Today we sang it during worship, and it took and a completely new meaning to me. As I sang the words, my heart began to break. I looked around at the kids that were surrounding me. Kids who do not know hope or strength that comes from the Lord. Kids who do not stand on His solid ground, or rely on Him through the fears in their life. These precious lives have been through more than my worst nightmares. Their "great" at times is my worst. I just began to cry and plead with the Lord as I sang that He would reveal Himself to them. That He would open their eyes to who He is. This song no longer became about me, but about these tender hearts coming to know our mighty, powerful Lord. A Lord who will be with them, walk alongside them through the hard times. This song speaks of such a new life, a grace that can ONLY come from Him. What a hope for these sweet ones that do not know that there can be some thing different. That thought His birth, His blood, and His sacrifice that our guilt, fear, and failures can be washed away.
Phil. 3:10
...that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
‘Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
‘til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand
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