Well, February is coming to a close and I have yet to select my song of the month.
February has been one of the most hectic months so far in my college career and for a while I wasn't prioritizing well. There would be days where my a capella group would come first and then my school work and vice versa. It's been hard. I just didn't make the conscious decision that it was okay to say no to some things. I was swimming in all the commitments that I've agreed to. Although my life commitments have been bobbing up and down in the water, so to speak, I know that one thing remained constant throughout. God's grace could not have been more prominent in every aspect of my life. He has given me the grace to accomplish everything that I have foolishly accepted, and he has given me strength to accomplish these tasks to the best of my ability. One song that has been weighing heavy on my heart this month is "The Wonder of the Cross" by Vicky Beeching. The lyrics are as follows:
O precious sight, my Savior stands,
Dying for me with outstretched hands.
O precious sight, I love to gaze,
Remembering salvation’s day,
Remembering salvation’s day.
Though my eyes linger on this scene,
May passing time and years not steal
The power with which it impacts me,
The freshness of its mystery,
The freshness of its mystery.
May I never lose the wonder,
The wonder of the cross.
May I see it like the first time
Standing as a sinner lost,
Undone by mercy and left speechless,
Watching wide eyed at the cost.
May I never lose the wonder,
The wonder of the cross.
Behold the God-man crucified,
The perfect sinless sacrifice.
As blood ran down those nails and wood,
History was split in two, yes,
History was split in two.
Behold the empty wooden tree,
His body gone, alive and free.
We sing with everlasting joy,
For sin and death have been destroyed, yes,
Sin and death have been destroyed.
May I never lose the wonder,
The wonder of the cross.
May I see it like the first time
Standing as a sinner lost,
Undone by mercy and left speechless,
Watching wide eyed at the cost.
May I never lose the wonder,
The wonder of the cross.
So basically amidst all my commitments, I was constantly reminded of the cross and all that Christ has done for me. It's so easy to go about my life and just casually address the topic of Jesus dying to save those he elected from eternal damnation. Because you know... he only died for us. It's no big deal. FALSE. Christ suffered the full wrath of God that was rightfully ours, but the perfect lamb was slain instead. How wonderful the gift that we have been given. We can never graduate from the Gospel. A friend of mine used a good example to explain how essential and important the Gospel is to our faith. She said learning the Gospel is like learning the basic alphabet. However, I doesn't stop here, I continue to use this alphabet for the rest of my life to read and learn more things by reading. The same goes from the Gospel. Let us never become casual with Christ or take the Gospel lightly.
