I have been listening to a praise CD as I travel the roads and one song, which I have known for a while, keeps on touching me. It is "Amazing Love" by Billy James Foote. These are the phrases that hit me:
"I'm forgiven because You were forsaken."
"I'm accepted, You were condemned."
"I'm alive and well, Your Spirit is within me because you died and rose again."
As I hear this sung over and over again, I think of the great contrasts - each phrase starts with a real positive thing for me and is opposed by the depth of what happened to Jesus so that I can have that positive thing. I have been singing this song without really taking in the meaning. I have been forgiven - all my sins washed away, I stand clean before God. For me to have this Jesus was forsaken - God turned His back on Him. He bore the sins of the world. I'm accepted by my Most Holy God, my heavenly Father - because Jesus was condemned, His Father couldn't interact with Him while He was covered by our sins. I'm alive and well - I think of the unhappy people who have chosen to turn their backs on God. I have joy, I have freedom in my heart and I am well because Jesus died. I have His Spirit in me because Jesus rose again. How else to write it:
forgiven - forsaken
accepted - condemned
alive and well - died
Think about it. It brings me to my knees - this "amazing love, how can it be - that You, my King would die for me? --- In all I do, I honor You."
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