My God is mighty to save
You have been my God from my mother’s womb. (Psalm 22:10)
It’s early this morning. Chris has left for work and the Lord has kept the eyes closed of three precious children so I may enjoy some time with him. Oh, the little gifts I begin to notice when I’m paying attention. I was thinking about when I first accepted Christ as my Savior the other day. I know in one of my bibles it is written that I was baptized, I think when I was like 7 years old. My mother tells me that the pastor came to our house in Atlanta, GA and prayed with me and then the next Sunday I “walked the aisle”. Although, it’s funny…. When I think about when I asked Jesus to “come into my heart”… I don’t remember being in my house in Georgia. I see a dark room. I see a twin bed..an old record player…pictures of ocean scenes on the wall. I remember being in my old room in our beach house. I remember lying in bed one night…looking up at the ceiling and saying in a prayer quietly “Jesus, I love you and I want you to come into my heart.” I remember saying those words… and that’s all… I don’t remember anything about “sin” or “dying on the cross” …nothing that I eventually came to understand. One day I shared these things with my mom and she just looked at me. She said one morning while we were vacationing at the beach I came into her bedroom and announced that I had asked Jesus to come into my heart…..I was 5.
I read this verse in Psalms today and I am reminded of God’s sovereignty. Of His purposes in our lives. I am reminded that He is at work in our hearts not from the time we can understand the gospel… not from the time we attend our first Sunday school class… not even from the time we take our first breath… but before we are even formed into being…..
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. Psalms 139:16
Oh, God you are have been my God since before my mother’s womb. Praise be to Your name! This is always good for me to be reminded of. I toil and rest uneasy in the pressures of trying to “save” my children. This is NOT my role as a mother. I may talk about His truths…I may bring them to church…I will pray for them… I will teach them about Jesus… I will try to be a Christ-like example for them… but Jesus is their Savior….HE and only He is the one mighty enough to save their precious hearts. This encourages me this morning. Not in the sense that I’m ‘off the hook’, so to speak… but because there is something greater at work in our lives….our GREAT redeemer, Jesus Christ! Only through Him is the perfection we long to obtain… the words we long to speak… the hearts we desire to have. Bound by His grace, we obtain our freedom. Embrace your freedom in Christ today, my dear friends. He longs to set you free. Do not be bound by worries today for your children…concerns about your jobs….fears for your marriages. No, Christ knows all of these things…He’s KNOWN them “when as yet there was not one of them.” Our lives are in the hands of someone greater than ourselves. We are called to give Him our loads… our burdens…..so that He may carry them for us…..and carry them all the way to Calvary. He has freed us of these things….and “if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” (John 8:36)–a promise.
