Music Unrivaled

I love music. The mere force and power within it to evoke emotion and action is unrivaled by any other. It is truly a gift.Two songs by Mercy Me have impacted me greatly. The lyrics are below. Check out the actual songs at: http://www.mercyme.org/main/pages/audio

I don't think you will be disappointed.

SONG 1: SANCTIFIED

Let there be no condemnation
For all who are fully known in Christ.
Unspeakable grace for all the nations
By way of holy sacrifice.
We worship with the sound
Of broken shackles
Falling to the ground.

Sanctified.
I have been set free.
Grace divine.
Has swept me off my feet.

No greater love has ever been known
Than He who came to find the last.
No greater sacrifice has been shown.
Than He who laid upon the cross.
Let all creation sing.
For He has come.
And He’s changed everything.

Sanctified.
I have been set free.
Grace divine.
He swept me off my feet.
And I know that I will never be the same.

Sanctified.
I have been set free.
Grace divine.
He swept me off my feet.

- Mercy Me “Sanctified”

Thoughts: Why me? Why grace for me? Only with Christ can we be set free from the burdens and binding nature of this world. Only with Christ can we be redeemed and set free. To "be Holy as I am Holy" - that is our mantra...to be set apart from the world...to live as free people in Christ. To show the abounding love and grace our Savior and Lord have given us so that we may be with Him for eternity. He has changed everything for me. He has changed everything for the world. Let me be sancified by His grace. Let me be set free. I am His.

SONG 2: MY HEART WILL FLY

Why this happened I cannot explain.
Why write the script with such heartache and pain.
Could there not have been an easier way?
Watching life through this glass so faded
I cannot see the bigger picture taking place.
Oh to understand one day.

And my heart will fly
When I finally see you face to face
And my tears will fly.
Away, away.

It won’t be long until we all go home.
With all things revealed and on that day, we’ll finally know.
Oh, as we are fully known.

And my heart will fly
When I finally see you face to face
And my tears will fly.Away, away.
And what appears as incomplete

Is still completely Yours.
And one day we’ll see as we’ve been seen
And we’ll soar.

And my heart will fly
When I finally see you face to face
And my tears will fly.
Away, away.

- Mercy Me “My heart will fly”

Thoughts: The ups and downs of this world will never disappear. We will all in one form or another experience doubt...trials...heartache...and maybe despair. But we need to rejoice because it is the difficult things in life that draw us near to our creator. It is in these times that we learn the most and are brought up out of immaturity and into a fuller understanding of Christ. Without the difficulties of life, we would simply cruze on by. We need the hard things in life to make us grow. So rejoice! We will see our creator face to face one day and in that time I guarantee you that every hurt, every sorrow will fade. I will stand before my Lord one day and what will I say? Will I ask why this, or why that? No. I will stand in awe of His encredible glory and grace and that will be enough. My Lord is enough for me now and is enough for me in the future. And with that my heart will always rejoice.