amazing grace

Yesterday at sunday worship, one of the songs we sang was:

"Amazing grace shall always be my song of praise,
For it was grace that bought my liberty,
I do not know just why He came to love me so,
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need.

I shall forever lift my eyes to Calvary,
To view the cross where Jesus died for me,
How marvellous the grace that caught my falling soul,
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need."

Wow. Powerful, isn't it? No wonder they call His grace amazing. No wonder GOD IS AMAZING.

Think about it.

Here I was, dead man walking, just waiting for the day that I die, and be sent to hell for eternal punishment and condemnation because of my sins, fallenness and rebellion towards my own Creator.

But God said "no no no....I don't want him to go to hell and suffer, I want him to live, to be with me, from now through eternity, forever and ever."
And God thought "hmmmm, but someone's gotta pay for the penalty of his sins.....I love him, and i don't want him to suffer or die.....ok, I'll send my one and only Son, my dear Jesus, to die in his place."

And so the ever living and true story goes, my Jesus died (and was raised and now lives forevermore) so that I may live. I wanna thank Him a million times over, and by God's grace, my life will echo like a hymn aptly put it:

"Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were an offering far too small,
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all...."