A year ago someone told me the story of the Gospel. Up until
then I was a lost soul. God was dead to me. Nothing I did in my pathetic little
life could get me in right standing with God. I was blinded. I never even
realised just how lost I was. Here’s the amazing part, even though God was dead
to me I wasn’t dead to God. He didn’t see me as pathetic. He WANTED to give me
life again. I watch this DVD of Louie Giglio and he used Carl Lewis, one of only
2 people, that ever jumped more than 8.8m, to illustrate how impossible it is
for us to get back to God. Do you have any idea how far 8.8m is to jump. Only
two people could ever jump that far in the history of this earth, how on earth
does anybody think they can ever bridge the gap sin caused between us and God,
if you can’t even manage to clear 8.8m. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE
FOR US AS HUMAN BEINGS TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT WITH GOD!!! Our sins
separated us so far from God, that even if we tried every single second for the
rest of our life’s we could never get back to God ever again. We are all doomed to die. No plan we have can ever
fix that, but God wanted to fix our relationship with Him. So He gave us Grace
in the form of Jesus Christ His Son.
What is Grace? Grace is God, CHOOSING to send His Son Jesus
Christ to die for us, so that we can be reconciled with Him again. Think about
it, there are people on this earth that never want to be reconciled with you ever
again and yet God wants to reconcile with you. He chose to send His Son to this
little spec of dust called earth, to walk among us and in the end to die a
horrible death for people that didn’t care, so that if even just one person
could be saved because of what Jesus did, it would have been worth it for God.
I am still struggling to get my mind around that kind of love, let alone
understand it. Not only did Jesus die for us, but he became sin for us. He took
all the misery and darkness of this world and became sin, he went to hell for
us. For 3 days Jesus took on Himself, what was actually supposed to be our destiny.
Have you ever sat down and thought about
what it must have been for a Man of flesh and blood to go through what Jesus
did, not only the physical pain, but the death of His soul. Anyone that has
ever been in the depths of a depression
will know what it can do to your soul, imagine taking just all the depression in
this world on yourself, we haven’t even started to pile on all the quilt, lies,
sins, ectr. Jesus was innocent and Holy,
but He came to us and became sin for us. Being Holy made it even worse in my
opinion, because His soul has never been blackened by sin. God’s grace made it possible
to be reconciled, through Jesus, with Him again. Through His grace he cleaned
the slate, never to be held against us again. (2 Corinthians 5, Eph 1-3)
My chains are gone
I’ve been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy rains
Unending love, Amazing Grace
But He did more. Not only did He forgive our sins, He also gave us the righteousness of God. Through Jesus we received The Spirit of God. Is that not amazing. God WANTS to come live in us, He wants to make our hearts His home here on earth. The minute I received the Holy Spirit my whole life changed. I did not believe in people receiving the Holy Spirit and falling over. To me it was just religious mass hysteria. It happened to me on a Saterday afternoon after we had a two day course, with absolutely no hysteria involved. To be honest I was so knew to everything, that when they asked who wants to receive the Holy Spirit, I thought they meant who wants to accept Jesus as their Savior. I had no idea what was to follow. All I know is that when I received the Holy Spirit I lost control of my body and started to fall backwards. I also experienced this incredibly warm feeling going through my body. That day was the first time I physically experienced the Presence of God. (I experienced it 3 more times during a session with one of the leaders at our church. Once again no hysteria, just a very spiritual woman asking God 3 times in a row to show Himself to me. That day I longed to have the kind of relationship with God where I can communicate like that with Him. That day God made it possible for me to start the last leg of my journey to emotional healing.) For a sceptic like me, I had no other choice but to believe what I felt and that is partly the reason why I absolutely believe in the spiritual realm. Why I believe in the absolute power of God and why I know that through Jesus in me, I as a human being can use that power for the Glory of God. Do you have any idea just exactly what that means? It means that through Jesus in me, I have the same power that resurrected Jesus. The same power that brought Jesus back to life. We don’t live in that power because our minds keep on telling us that it is just not possible.
Louie Giglio also spoke about praising God. Ps 148 speak
about everybody and everything in heaven and on earth praising God, even the
moon, sun and stars and the giants of the sea. Did you know that stars make a
sound and that people have actually managed to record those sounds. The sounds come from magnetic fields that get
generated because the stars spin around their own axis. He took the sounds of 3
stars, the sounds whales make while playing and the voice of one man, mashed it
together and made the most beautiful song. For those of you who know the music
of Chris Tomlinson, he played the song How Great is My God with the sounds the 3
stars and whales made. I have heard this song so many times, but never like
that. I sat and listen to that song and the tears were running, because once
again God’s Word was confirmed by nature.
How great is my God
Sing with me
How great is my God
All will see
How great, how great
Is my God
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