Revived By Praise Day 4

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent

His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:10

Ruth Myers writes:

"I love You, Father, because You first loved me and sent Your Son to atone for my sins. And I stand amazed that Jesus, who by nature had always been God, did not cling to His rights as Your equal...that He laid aside all His privileges, to be born as a human being...that He totally humbled Himself, submitting to the death of a common criminal, enduring infinite humiliation and pain...on the cross You laid on Him the compressed weights of all my sin and guilt and shame, of all my griefs and sorrows, and He became sin for me, dying my death.

And how much I praise You that it was impossible for death to hold Him in its power...that You raised Him from the dead to be my Savior, to make me righteous in Your sight...that You highly exalted Him, giving Him a position infinitely superior to any conceivable command, authority, power, or control, both natural and supernatural. Thank You that He is the Great High Priest...that He is able to save me completely, for He lives forever and prays for me, and for all of us who have come to You through Him. I glorify You, my Father, with gratefulness and joy.

And I bow at the feet of Him who was dead and is now alive forever and ever. I exalt Him, I yield myself to Him, for He is worthy of the total response of my entire being:

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive powers and riches and wisdom

and might and honor and glory and blessing."

Praise God! What a precious parent He is...

He loved us first!

He was willing to die for us.

He prays for us!

The challenge is there to bow down before our Maker. What keeps us from taking that position? When we humble ourselves, maybe we will hear better and thus feel better!

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker

Psalm 95:6