Beautiful Old Songs | Saturday, May 28, 2005
I recently bought a Christian cd and found that I like it very much. When the worship leader sang "Turn Your eyes upon Jesus" and "I exalt Thee" my feelings stirred within me most powerfully.
You see, I have come to realise that there are a lot of things I want to do be it for the benefit for other people, God and mostly myself, I seldom factored God into my equation. I normally and often depend on myself and people whom I deemed are a potential of help to me and I seldom depended on God unless I have no way out. SO when I heard him singing "Turn Your eyes upon Jesus" I was hit most powerfully and that brought me to the first point.
Why is it so hard to focus our eyes upon Jesus? All the things we want to do to glorify His name and extend His kingdom here on earth and to please Him with our words and lifestyle which is very very difficult and yet the last Person we focus is HIm, Creator of Heaven and Earth. I think the reason is simply because the things in the world seek to dazzle us and we are dazzled, distract us and we are distracted, attract us to their way of living and philosophy and we are attracted and all these are temporal which is very true. Yet, we have this rationale that we ought to enjoy ourselves to the fullest for afterall life is also temporal and so we turn our attention to the things of what life has to offer us. We did not turn to Jesus Christ and built our house on the foundation of sand and Jesus said it most poignantly that the waves came and great is its destruction. James said it that we know the right things to do and not do it, it is sin (paraphrase mine).
"I Exalt Thee" is a song I often sing as a child and I would sing it at the top of my voice, often straining my vocal chords. I would sing it with gusto and believed that I would exlat God with my goodness, capabilities and strength, bringing people to Christ, worshipping Him, reading His word and going for prayer meetings without fail. I was thinking that maybe God would be most glorified not by our strengths but rather our weaknesses. God said to Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you for power is perfected in weaknesses." Paul replied that, "Most greatly then will I boast about my weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell in me." I would then sing this song with a new attitude of heart probably a heart of gratitude and humility that "Lord, I exalt you not of what I can do but rather of what You can do through me." I exalt You in my weaknesses for only You have the power to show grace in me and to life up my head. I exalt You not because of what You have done in my life but for the simple reason that I love You because You love me first. You unfailingly love me even though I may grieve You and shamed Your Name and for this reason I exalt You. Listen to the rich hymns and old Christian songs and maybe your life would be impacted in such ways that you never expected. Like to use the words from the ex-Ceo of HP who gave a speech and she said it most beautifully, "Who You are is a gift From God and What You make yourself is a gift to God." I believe that those who read are a beautiful gift to God for He is our Potter and we are clay and He has the ability to make us into beautiful porcelain veses or vessels of gold, silver for honor. You are a gift to God and people who are your friends and so be a blessing to them just as God is a blessing to You.
May you be blessed when you read this blog. God bless
Shalom
Joseph
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