We sang Matt Redman’s “You Never Let Go” yesterday morning during worship and it was absolutely amazing. So awesome to look around and see smiling faces with arms upraised singing to the Father unashamedly. Oh what heaven will be like!
As I sang, God was speaking powerfully to my heart…reminding me of how He never let me go…even when I was running to various idols and trying to suck life out of them and living like the Prodigal. He not only loved me in spite of my sin, He continued to pursue me because He was and is the Jealous Lover of my Soul.
Listen to these powerful words…
Since worship yesterday, I have listened to the words of this song over and over and have been convicted about how easy it is to mouth the words but how often I live life not fully believing that they are true. Why do I so often live as an orphan, Father? How different my life would be if I lived each day in full assurance that I have a Father whose heart is good and who delights in me. The age-old message of the enemy has not changed since the Garden…
“God is holding out on you…you need to take matters into your own hands and get as much out of life as possible before it is over.”
“You are on your own.“
Wow. Just typing that last phrase was like a dagger into my soul. That is the message that the enemy and my Inner Critic tell me over and over during the circumstances of life.
Peel back all of the layers of Fred Traylor Lovvorn II and there you have it…I’m a wounded little boy packaged in a 6’3, 215 lb. frame who lives each day wrestling with the truth of the Gospel…fighting to believe it…struggling to apply it…attempting to get my arms around the scandalous nature of it. And those wounds hurt so I have to constantly keep an eye on my flesh because it will so quickly run to all kinds of medicine to numb and medicate the pain.
But the words to Matt’s song and the Gospel are true! HE WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER LET US GO! No matter where you have been or what you have done…God loves you intensely and is pursuing your heart. He is good! He delights in you! And guess what? Because this is true it is not all up to us to figure out this thing called Life! Now THAT is good news!
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