I got up this morning with a song running through my head by The Martins, You Saved Me. It is an awesome song and worth listening to. It is on YouTube, so check it out. I don't know if I have the CD anymore, so I made a mix CD of a bunch of the Martin's songs from my iTunes and headed out to work. The first song on my CD I made was the one mentioned above. After it ended, another song from the same CD that song was recorded on played, and it hit home, especially after what I had prayed last night. The song is called "May We Never Forget." The first verse and chorus goes like this:
Verse 1
The story's so familiar
We've heard it all before
Some days it seems
Like nothing's sacred anymore
Despite the best intentions
Somewhere along the road
We've come to take for granted
This truth that we know
Chorus:
May we never forget
The cross and the blood
The price that was paid
So that we might live
May we never forget
The cost of this love
He'll never forsake us
He'll always forgive
May we never forget
That song has been played many times on my pc and on the CD when I did have the original CD, but never has it hit home as much as it did today. I thought about it all day, and played the song a few more times on the way home, and I thought more. Do I take Jesus and His death and resurrection for granted? I am afraid I do.
There is an old hymn that says "Tell me the old, old story, tell me the old, old story,
Tell me the old, old story, of Jesus and His love." But what happens when the old, old story gets so old it doesn't mean as much anymore? What if the story becomes to familiar that we yawn when we hear it?
The last verse of the song May We Never forget says this:
So let us decide right here, right now
To refresh our memory
Of how it felt to be lost
And how it feels to be free.
Maybe therein likes the answer to not become calloused and, for the lack of a better term, bored with our Christian experience.... think about what it felt to be lost and remember how it felt to be forgiven of everything we ever did and find a peace that we never had before.
Some of us were saved from "bad" sins, and others of us were saved as young people and never ventured out into sin. The former has a lot to thank God for. He saved them from a life of sin and wiped the slate clean and what they did cannot be held against them anymore. The other group has a lot to be thankful for also. They need to thank God for saving them from going into a life of sin and sparing them all the heartache and pain that they could have experienced.
I am not a wordsmith, and to try to portray in great words the miracle of redemption is beyond my abilities, but how can we get used to the idea that the King of Kings sent His only Son to die for our sins, and that all we have to to is repent and confess our sins, and He will come into our heart? How can we get used to the idea that if we are faithful to the end that we will live forever in a place that no tongue can describe the wonders of it?
We cannot dwell in the past, but it would do us good to look back once in a while to remember the pit God brought us from and to be thankful for this Amazing grace and this marvelous plan of redemption that doesn't make sense to any human mind.
Maybe I am the only one who gets so used to all of this that it becomes old hat, but I doubt it. May none of us forget where we came from, and what God has done for us and will do.
The story's so familiar
We've heard it all before
Some days it seems
Like nothing's sacred anymore
Despite the best intentions
Somewhere along the road
We've come to take for granted
This truth that we know
May we never forget
The cross and the blood
The price that was paid
So that we might live
May we never forget
The cost of this love
He'll never forsake us
He'll always forgive
May we never forget
So let us decide right here, right now
To refresh our memory
Of how it felt to be lost
And how it feels to be free
May we never forget
The cross and the blood
The price that was paid
So that we might live
May we never forget
The cost of this love
He'll never forsake us
He'll always forgive
May we never forget
The grace of our God
The wealth of His mercy out-poured
Forgive us, Lord
Forgive us if we ever forget
Your cross and Your blood
The life that You gave
So that we might live
May we never forget
The cost of Your love
You'll never forsake us
You'll always forgive
May we never, never ever forget
Songwriters
JOYCE MARTIN MCCOULLOUGH, MATT HUESMANN (4012), GRANT CUNNINGHAM (10251)
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