Awe

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. --Isaiah 53:5-6

Even though I have been a Christian for my whole life, I still get chills when I think about the sacrifice Christ made for us. And I pray that I would always get goosebumps when I read or hear about what He did for us on the cross, that the tremendous act of love, mercy, and grace would always overwhelm me. I pray for every believer that none of us would ever grow so accustomed to His sacrifice that we take it for granted. Read these words from Isaiah out loud today until they soak into your soul.

I don't know that our feeble minds will ever be able to understand the mystery of God's love, but thankfully, we don't have to. We just have to accept His love and live in a constant state of awe in regards to the grace that covers us so completely without any act of our own. Nichole Nordeman sings "The cradle of the grave could not contain Your Divinity/Neither can I oversimplify this love/Oh, let me not forget to tremble." Let us not ever take our salvation or Christ's work on the cross for granted, but let us fall trembling to our knees in awe and gratitude. He bore out sins so that we wouldn't have to and by His wounds we are healed.

Posted by Kim at March 13, 2007 11:03 AM