These verses & songs keeping coming up in different areas of life lately. In a way, they all seem to go together. The verses are quotes, but the rest are my thoughts and interpretations of the verses. I could be wrong and totally missing something, but this is how I ‘heard’ them.
Psalms 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God;…” We are to be still in Him, it is not about what we do, or who we are. It is about knowing He is God.
2 Corinthians 3:5 “Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.” It is not about my competence. The only competence I have comes from God – and then it is His competence thru me. According to the dictionary, the two applicable definitions of competence are 1) a sufficiency of means for the necessities and conveniences of life and 2) the knowledge that enables a person to speak and understand a language.
Psalms 53:1 “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’…” It says in our heart, we don’t have to profess ‘there is no God’ with our mouths to be a fool. If we act as if there is no God, we are professing in our heart by our actions.
Psalms 53:2 “God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, and who seek God.” He is looking for us to seek Him.
Psalms 65:5 “You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior…” You do answer us, always, with awesome deeds of righteousness – not the answer I necessarily want, but what is awesome and righteous.
Galatians 2:16 “know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ…but by observing the law no one will be justified.”
Galatians 2:21 “I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” If I were able to be justified or I could gain righteousness through the law, then Christ died for nothing! Thank you, Heavenly Father, for giving your Son, to die for my sins. Sins I don’t intend to commit. Sins I may harbor in my heart. Please, keep me from being a fool in my heart.
Psalms 66:5, 20 “Come and see what God has done, how awesome his works in man’s behalf! … Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!” My God is a God who does awesome works in my behalf, He has not rejected my prayer, nor has He withheld His love from me!
Galatians 3:10 “All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.’
Galatians 3:12 “The law is not based on faith;…”
Galatians 3:13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us…”
If I rely on the law, I am cursed. Christ redeemed me from the curse by dying on the cross for me.
Mighty to Save
by Hillsong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that’s never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour
He can move the mountains
My God is might to save
He is mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave (2x)
So take me as You find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Saviour
He can move the mountains
My God is might to save
He is mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave (2x)
Shine Your light and let the whole world see
We’re singing
For the glory for the risen King – (Jesus) – (2x)
Saviour
He can move the mountains
My God is might to save
He is mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave (2x)
Shine Your light and let the whole world see
We’re singing
For the glory for the risen King – (Jesus) – (6x)
And if that isn’t enough. He is Mighty to Save. It is not because of what I have done, but because of who He is, He saved me.
Who Am I
by Casting Crowns
Who am I,
that the Lord of all the earth would care to know my name,
would care to feel my hurt?
Who am I,
that the Bright and Morning Star would choose to light the way for my ever wandering heart?
Not because of who I am, but because of what You’ve done.
Not because of what I’ve done, but because of who You are.
I am a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tomorrow,
a wave tossed in the ocean a vapor in the wind.
Still You hear me when I’m calling,
Lord, You catch me when I’m falling.
And You’ve told me who I am,
I am Yours.
Not because of who I am, but because of what You’ve done.
Not because of what I’ve done, but because of who You are.
Who am I,
that the eyes that see my sin would look on me with love and watch me rise again?
Who am I,
that the voice that calmed the sea would call out through the rain and calm the storm in me?
Not because of who I am, but because of what You’ve done.
Not because of what I’ve done, but because of who You are.
I am Yours.
I am Yours.
Whom shall I fear?
‘Cause I am Yours,
I am Yours.
(lyrics to both songs from www.lyrics.com)