A Singer, A Song

This thing has me by the shirt-collar. I can’t shake it.

It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me how fundamentally (no pun intended) transforming this process of sanctification is in a believer’s life, in my life. I am overcome by the liberating realization that God loves me right now as much as He ever has or ever will, and that His love for me, thanks to Christ’s forgiving work of grace on my behalf, is completely independent of anything I may do or not do. This one truth is new to me every day, and I’m rejoicing in the new-found freedom that it’s bringing me. God reached down to me when I was dead in my sin and chose me as His own. There was no goodness on my part that motivated Him, and there is no merit of my own that holds me in that position; it is my eternal, loving God alone who holds me and sustains me, who protects me and who guides me. And why is that? Because He loves me. Incredible! The more I learn that lesson, the more I am free to live a free life of service to my Savior, and the more I am at liberty to love those around me without seeking to control, manipulate, or judge.

I’m pretty sure that this is what the Bible’s been about ever since it was written. This is where the rubber meets the road for the Christian. So how is it that, while trying to do right, act right, think right, be right, we’ve lost sight of this most basic of the commandments? (Matthew 22:34-40) We’re so concerned with being right, we’ve forgotten that the fundamental law that drives our faith and from which everything else springs is first and foremost love.

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