Life and Death

What a wonderful Maker, what a wonderful Savior,

How majestic your whisper, how humble your love,

With a strength like no other and the heart of a Father,

What a wonderful God.

 

Amazing love…

I’m forgiven, you’re forsaken;

I’m accepted, you’re condemned;

I’m alive because you died.

 

While these two songs were being sung this morning during our team’s prayer and worship time, I was overwhelmed by the thought that the God who was in heaven, the majestic one, the creator, the perfector… came here to earth to be forsaken, condemned, and crucified so that I might be forgiven, accepted and alive.
  But that was not all…

What God revealed to me this morning is that as I am one with Christ, I too am called to the same forsakenness, condemnation and death.
  Why?
  That others might receive forgiveness, acceptance and life.
  It is that my life is no longer about me.
  Rather, my life is about others.
  It is that I must die to the things of this world that others might live in Christ.
  No more worrying about me, because my destination is set.
  It is now my calling, our calling, as Christ followers to sacrifice our lives that others might see God in us.
  That others might have eternal life; that others might come to know the amazing love of the Father.