The power in us!
 

          One of Jeremy Camp’s latest song, “Same Power” is so powerful. I continue to tear up as I sing along to it. Just think about it, “the same power that raised Jesus from the grave!”

          Just as our Heavenly Father loved Jesus, He too loves us. Many people today do not really think about this. They are too much into the world. Satan has blinded them to what is truly important. Accepting the Savior of the world for one. How many of you out there feel that you are in control? Are you able to successfully live your life and attain all you have set your eyes on? Do you constantly strive to please everyone in your life? Are your walls beginning to seem too tall to climb over?

          I have been there. I was on the run all the time. My heart longed for things that I did not, and could not, attain. I was in a relationship that was smothering me. I played church, going every Sunday and praying and singing right along with everyone else. I was living the BIG MASQURADE!!!! My heart was as cold as stone, because that was what it was made of. My walls kept getting taller and taller, and they soon came tumbling down on me. I was under the debris of what my life had been.

          But the “same power that can calm a raging sea” came into my heart. Jesus, our Savior, smashed the stone that was encasing my heart. What laid underneath was a heart that was flesh! A heart that God had created! A heart that He loved, and wanted for His own. Truly His own. He made my heart, yes, but He allowed me to ‘use’ my heart as I wanted to do, that was the freewill that He put in me, and everyone for that matter. The “same power that moves the mountains when he speaks” has transformed me into what He had predestined from before the creation of the world.

          I am now the transformed son that came back from the pig pen of this world. The transformed son that was met by the Father out on the road, He put a ring on my finger and sandals on my feet. He put His power in me so that His glorious light would shine outward from inside me. Shine His light into the lives of others that I come in contact with, so that they will see Him in me. I live my life now guided and directed by His powerful hand. His love, for not only me but for all the world, flows through me and overflows onto those I am around.

          “The same power that commanded death to wake” has now commanded me to go out into the world and proclaim His love for this world He made. To show others that as I have His power in me I need to share that others can have the same love because Jesus’ desire is for them to also have His love flowing through their hearts. Which brings me the song Lauren Daigle “How can it be.” How can it be that this can be? We worry about our pasts too much. It seems that our pasts and all the trouble that we had is a burden that way too many people carry. How can it be? It can be because Jesus died for you. He willingly went to the cross and died upon it, shedding His blood in order that it would cover ALL of your sins, past/present/future!!!! He covered all of mine, and now I have the same power to become all He wants me to be, so that He is praised and lifted up. How can it be? It can be because He created us, you and me, and desires to have a long lasting relationship with us. A relationship that will enable us to be with Him for eternity in the house He has built for us in heaven. My sins landed me in prison. But the power of OUR Savior went right through the fences and He made His home in my heart. See my past made no difference to the Father, because the blood of our risen Savior had covered the sins of my past. I was made whole, in the Father’s eyes. He no longer saw me as broken and bleeding. In His eyes I was a whole son that He loved me more that I will ever know.

          So see the Father in Heaven loves you too. He desires to have a personal, loving relationship with you. Just as my past is my past, your past the Lord no longer sees. It is separated from you “as far as one scared hand is from the other.” If you are laying in a pile of your shattered life, know that Jesus knows and wishes for you to come to Him and accept his unconditional love! Yes, unconditional love!! Come to Jesus and allow Him to take your pasts off of your shoulders and put them on His. Decide right now to walk unimpeded, walking tall, filled with the power, mercy, grace and forgiving power that only Jesus can offer. I did and my life is now filled with the peace and joy that flows from the heart of our, OUR, Father.