O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance. -Isaiah 26:13 One of the amazing benefits of knowing the Lord is freedom. If we make him lord of ourselves, and since he’s lord of all things, we’re given freedom from the things that used to hold us back – the anxiety of being alone, the regret of things done wrong, the desire […]
Last night at church, we sang a new Christmas song about the King of Kings being born and now known to the world (well, this seems obvious since it was, after all, a song about Baby Jesus!–lols). But the song was also about rejoicing for the first arrival of the one who will defeat our enemy and how we wait for his second arrival. And oddly enough, as we sung the song, I felt sad! […]
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities–all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” –Colossians 1:15-17