How good is God? So good!
this past Sunday was simply sublime! Services packed and from start to finish Jesus was lifted high and the church just rocked out loving Him well. Love it! The empty grave is singing out...it's shouting out...
HE IS ALIVE! HE IS ALIVE! AND WE ARE FREE!!!
I don't know how you spent Easter afternoon, but we were so blessed to spend the afternoon with our small group family, grilling out, kids running everywhere, and enjoying the beautiful life we share together in Christ. It's all because of Jesus!
A huge thought that hit me yesterday.... a few weeks ago we focused on the question "Who do you say that I am?" This was a question Jesus asked some of His followers when they questioned who He was and what He was doing. We read story after story of things Jesus said and things Jesus did and over and over it said: "And the crowd was amazed at Him,"..."And they marveled at His teaching,"..."and they were astounded by Him."
So yesterday, camped out in Luke 7 (also found in Matthew 8)..Jesus finds a centurion (a Roman officer who is in chard of a hundred men) who has a servant who is sick. People speak very well of the centurion to Jesus, telling Jesus that He is a stand-up guy, making a case for why Jesus should help him.
Jesus comes upon the centurion's house and the centurion basically says to Jesus: "Please don't come into my house because I'm not worthy. But Jesus, I know who you are...and I believe everything I have heard about you is true. I know you don't even have to come into my house to heal my servant. You can just speak and it will be done. I believe in you.
The next phrase gets me. "When Jesus heard this, he marveled at him..." Can you imagine Jesus, the Son of God; our Savior; our Lord; marveling at our level of faith? That's just wild! Jesus being astounded at how much we trust Him. So I wonder would he?
What impossible thing am I trusting God with? How am I walking in faith? Would Jesus be pleased with how much I trust Him?
Let's have big faith in Him because He is a great big God. We have tasted and seen....we have heard and we know...He is able!
Faith moves...Hope sees...Love gives...
jw
2 comments:
We also enjoyed the worship Easter morning at EBC. Could you please send the names of the songs that were sung that Sunday so that we could learn them? They were new to us. Thank you!
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Hey Martin.
So glad you were able to be here Easter! It was great to meet you.
The songs we did sang in worship:
God is Alive by Fee,
Rise and Sing by Fee,
In Christ Alone, by the Getty's with the chorus The Same Power by Hillsong,
Stronger by Hillsong, with additional choruses of Mystery by Charlie Hall and Came to My Rescue by Hillsong.
Have a great, grace-filled day!
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