"How Can it Be?"

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“If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law”  Galatians 5:18

“How blessed it is to know that we dwell in the domains of grace and not of law!  When thinking of my state before God the question is not, “Am I perfect in myself before the law?” but, “Am I perfect in Christ Jesus?”  That is a very different matter.  We need not enquire, “Am I without sin naturally?” but, “Have I been washed in the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness?”  It is not “Am I in myself well pleasing to God?” but it is “Am I accepted in the Beloved?”  The Christian views his evidences from the top of Sinai, and grows alarmed concerning his salvation; it were better far if he read his title by the light of Calvary.  “Why,” saith he, “my faith has unbelief in it, it is not able to save me.”  Suppose he had considered THE OBJECT (Jesus Christ) of his faith instead of his faith, then he would have said, “There is no failure IN HIM, and therefore I am safe.”

Charles Spurgeon

When it comes to my spiritual life, I detest myself when I begin to focus on what I “can, should, did, am doing, or not doing” for the Lord.  Where is Jesus Christ in such thinking?  Why do I focus on myself and what I DO (or should do, or do not do!), rather on Christ and what He would ask me to do?   I beg the Lord to keep me humble and to keep me BEHIND THE CROSS, so that others (and I!) will see HIM and not me.  I am nothing!  He is everything!  

 

Oh Savior, as my eyes behold the wonders of Thy might untold,
The heav’ns in glorious light arrayed, the vast creation Thou hast made-
And yet to think Thou lovest me-my heart cries out, “How can it be?”
How can it be?  How can it be  That God should love a soul like me,
O how can it be?

As at the cross I humbly bow and gaze upon Thy thorn-crowed brow,
and view the precious bleeding form by cruel nails so bruised and torn,
To know Thy suffering was for me, in grief I cry, “How can it be?”
How can it be?  How can it be?  That God should love a soul like me,
O how can it be?

How can it be?  How can it be?  Was ever grace so full and free!
From heights of bliss to depths of woe, in loving kindness Thou didst go,
From sin and shame to rescue me, O Love Divine, How can it be?
How can it be?  How can it be?  That God should love a soul like me,
O how can it be?

Written by Avis B. Christiansen, 1895-1985

Oh, to be saved from myself, dear Lord!
O to be lost in Thee!
O that it may be no more I, dear Lord!
But Christ, who lives in me!

 

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  2. Thanks for putting this song in your blog. After we sang it yesterday, I wanted to do that, too, but you beat me to it. 🙂 What you had to say is so right. Thank you so much for sharing it. ebabe will be proud. 🙂

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  4. Ebabe’s church sang “Blest Be the Tie that Binds” last night after a wonderful message by one of our deacons on A Caring Church.  (I wondered if he had read my blog!)
    Anyway, did you know there are no hymns written on Christian Liberty commonly sung in Baptist churches?  Other than the few oft-quoted lines in “Once for All” it is a completely neglected area of hymnody. 
    Free from the law, oh happy condition!
    Jesus has bled, and there is remission!

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