Today is Easter, and I am free
because of your sacrifice for me. Today you rise from the dead so I might walk
in newness of life. Today you come once more into my heart and make me your own.
You are my place of safe retreat.
You are my refuge from my own self. I can retreat from others into myself, but
I can never hide from myself–from my own failures, my sins, my weaknesses, and
my own limitations. I find that within myself there is no relief. But in these
early Easter hours I discover that you are my sanctuary. You hide me under your
wings until I forget my limitations, and my failures. You hide me until my own
sins are washed away and remembered no more. You hide me until relief from my
failure begins to fill my heart. You hide me from myself until the relief of your
grace brings great joy.
And that is my Easter joy. You
have saved me from myself. I am free of who I have been, and free to be new in
you.
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