Sunday, September 13, 2009

You're the reason why


Today was homecoming at our church, so like any good Baptist church, we had singing after the meal. We were asked to sing, and on a whim Marigrace asked Jubilee if she would sing with us.
She said yes.


Today my beautiful new sister sang "Amazing Grace" in front of our church family. Later Marigrace shared that she almost began to cry as she held her African sister and thought of the story behind the man (John Newton) who wrote the song, and his conversion from slave trader to a man of God. By the grace of God both Jubilee and Jesse are free. Free to be adopted, free to love and be loved. Free to be taught God's word and declare their love for Him.


That same grace that Newton discovered is still promised to anyone who will believe. You're the reason why Christ came to earth as a mere man, lived to serve, heal, and disciple, and then died for the redemption of ALL sin. The same sin that He died for will chain you down, and keep you bound for Hell unless you repent of it, accept Christ's forgiveness, and believe that He is the Son of God and His Father is the Creator of all things, the only God.


It doesn't end there. Now comes the hardest and most rewarding part of it all. You will be a child of God; therefore the going will be tough, times will get hard, but guess what? You have the Creator of the Universe, the King of Kings on your side! He is dying to hold you, to draw you close and give you His very best for your life; don't settle for less then that.

Stop running. You belong to Him.


You run, you hide
As tears fall from your eyes
They fall like snow
From a wounded soul
You hold inside
The hurt of great divide
The hole is starting to get old

So come back to the light
To the love, you will find
It’s been here all along
So come back to the start
And you’ll find in your heart
That you always belonged
To me

Just take the rope
I won’t let it go
Give in
We can start again
I’m life, I’m hope
And I’m ready to explode
With how bad I want you back home

So come back to the light
To the love, you will find
It’s been here all along
So come back to the start
And you’ll find in your heart
That you always belonged
To Me

You’re my daughter, you’re my son
You’re the one I long to love
And you’ve heard I chose to die
Do you know you’re the reason why?


~ Grey Holiday

5 comments:

Leah-Joy said...

This is so beautiful!!! You are such and amazing writer!!! God's love for us is so unexplaiable, but, for all that we can understand, you did an amazing job!

Mg* said...

What a great post!! You, as Joy said, are am Amazing writer :0) This was truly an blessed day

Deborah said...

God's Amazing Grace has put these precious little ones in our home, and His Grace is knitting us together. We have all been rescued. We have all been adopted into Christ's family. I am so humbled by all that God has done and is doing in our family.

I love you dearly,
Mama

Debbie B said...

What a wonderful post!!! I can't believe I missed it earlier in the week. :)

I would have loved to have seen all of you sing in front of the church!!

Love,
Mrs. Debbie

Jenny said...

Beautifully written! You are so talented! Love you!
Aunt Jenny