When I started the car to leave work, in Christ Alone began to play on the radio. I smiled and began to soak in every lyric-it’s one of my favorite songs. By the time the end of the song played–you guessed it, puddles in my eyes.
The song ends… ’til He returns or calls me home, here…in the power…of Christ…I’ll stand.
This day happened to be my birthday, my 52nd birthday. As I listened to those final lyrics, I was so grateful to be standing in His power, grateful that I know Him in a way I never have before, grateful that I am His and He is mine.
I began to review my life and the power of the things I have “stood” in throughout my life.
I have stood in my own efforts, performance driven to prove my worth and significance and also to seek love from others.
I have stood in worldly success with good jobs and material possessions to find validation and approval from others and also achieve “happiness”.
I have stood in worldly beauty decorating my outside with jewelry, make up and fancy clothes all the while being a poster child for insecurity to the depths of my soul.
I have stood in pretense trying to convince myself along with everyone else that things were “perfect” mostly because I wanted so badly for them to be, or so I thought.
I have stood in striving, I have stood in busyness and full calendars somewhere along the line believing that was a “good” thing.
I have stood in codependency finding worth and value only in how happy I could make others-you can guess how that ends 😦
I have stood in others words, opinions and even verbal assaults accepting them as truth and distorting my true identity and establishing a weak foundation for my worth.
I have stood in shame and condemnation, maybe from others but mostly from myself making my mistakes and failures the definition of who I am.
I have stood in self righteousness thinking that somehow my sin wasn’t quite as bad as others (lies of the enemy).
Today, I stand in Christ…alone. I stand in His sufficient grace. I stand in His boundless love. I stand in His freedom and His redemption…and none of this is because of me, but solely because of His gift of salvation and His refining and pruning…all because of Him!! Ahhhh…what a glorious place to be…here…in the power of Christ I’ll stand, ’til He returns or calls me home. Thank You Jesus for who we are in You, for Your crazy grace and lavish love, for Your continued molding and making of each of us to be more like You.
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Marla Geiger 