11.29.23
“and now i sing a brand new song: Amazing grace, for Jesus paid the debt I could never pay.”
It seems that I've been grappling with ungratefulness lately. It's not that I'm not grateful for God's blessings in my life or feel like I've been slighted in some way - it's more that I have this unholy condition of my heart that is constantly striving for more and not being content where I find myself (Philippians 4:12). Just recently, however, I was praying to the Lord and decided to bring gratefulness into the conversation. While doing this, God just dropped an old hymn into my mind that I haven't heard for a long time. The title of the hymn is "He paid a debt He did not owe." The chorus hit me like a ton of bricks, it goes like this ...“He paid a debt He did not owe, i owed a debt I could not pay, i needed someone to wash my sin away. and now i sing a brand new song: amazing grace, for jesus paid the debt i could never pay.”
I can not put into words the shock that those words delivered to my heart. That he have all for me! I only deserve eternal punishment, but instead i receive eternal bliss in the presence of my savior. if that doesn’t set your heart onto a path of gratitude, i don’t know what will.Thank you God for your indescribable gift!God blessScott moshier