There is only one thing I love more than waking up to snow on the ground...waking up with a song in my head. I especially love it when the song is one I love to sing as opposed to one of my husband's Ozzy tunes.
The past few months, the song I wake up with the most is Glorious Day by Casting Crowns. Keep in mind, I don't wake up to an alarm clock. Soooo....I would like to think those songs are planted in my head as a way to start my day off great in hopes it might stay that way.
When I start picking apart the song, Glorious Day, it's so easy to understand why it is so uplifting.
One day when Heaven was filled with His praises
One day when sin was as black as could be
Jesus came forth to be born of a Virgin
Dwelt among men, my example is He
What more could be said about these first lines? It had to be a glorious day. Another song writer once said how amazing it must have been, but it may have been so glorious that nobody could say a word.
Word became flesh and the light shined among us
His glory revealed
The idea of Jesus being fully man and people seeing God as man is so overwhelming. Can you imagine having stood next to Jesus? Even more overwhelming....can you imagine seeing those who ignored his glory or even shunned him and finally those who beat him?
Living He loved me, dying He saved me
And buried He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified freely forever
One day He's coming, oh, glorious day, oh, glorious day
The chorus is where I usually get stuck and stay. He loved me. He died to save me. Living He loved me, dying He saved me. That seems so simple, but so deep. One day He's coming again...how amazing that day will be.
For me and given my past, the idea that God loves me that much is more than I can understand. Yet, it's something I want hold onto and plant deep inside of me so that I never lose it.
This picture of His sacrifice is almost unbelievable in a human sense. Do you really know anyone who would honestly die to save you? Do you know anyone who would not only die to save you, but also die to save that man sitting in prison who has raped and beaten and killed? I don't! I'm not sure I would either. I like to think my husband would die to save me. I don't think I know one person who would die for that man in prison or my dad or that gun-toting thug who's about to rob a bank.
To me, this shows a love for us that is bigger and more concrete than any we could ever experience on earth.
There's so much more I could say about this one song. I'll save that for another day. Off to bed I go...hoping tomorrow morning will bring a beautiful song. Hoping that even if only for a moment, I will be be reminded that living He loves me and dying He saved me....oh glorious day!
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