He rules the world with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
and wonders of His love
and wonders of His love
And wonders, wonders, of His love.
If I'm not careful, I dread Christmas. Modern Christmas. The busyness, the pressure to buy the perfect gifts, the unholy desire to impress others with my ability to "keep Christ in Christmas". Writing these posts, reflecting on these lyrics, really does remind me what it is we're celebrating. It's a big deal because He is a big deal. A baby born in a remote village on the other side of the world over two thousand years ago changed my life. And whether you know it or not, He changed yours, too.
I got a text from a friend this weekend asking me to pray that she'd be able to really experience an understanding of God's love for her deep down inside. I thought of her when I was reading these lyrics, the wonders of His love.
A popular worship song I love to crank up loudly in my car has a line in it that says, "I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way He loves us, Oh, how He loves us!" That's the joy to the world, the coming of One who freed us from sin and from ourselves. The One who had every right to condemn us in His righteousness, chose to pursue us with a wondrous love instead.
We don't sing the third verse very often, but with all these things in mind, read it afresh today:
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as the curse is found!
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might dare to die. But God demonstrates His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8
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