You've taken these broken pieces and have made something that shines enough to reflect your glory. Your work is not finished yet, but the transformation so far is amazing. It isn't anything I've done or anything I could ever do. The work you've done in me is all your own. There aren't any rules I can obey, any lines I have to stay between, and any allegiance I can make and be true to. You have made me free from all of that. It is You in me and me in You. It is falling in love with You deeper and deeper. This is the change happening in me.
It is not a bargain, because I could never keep my end of any deal. It is your grace that is all sufficient. You owe me nothing, yet you've given me all you have without waiting to see how good I can be.
You haven't given me empty words to just believe in or obligations that I have to keep. I'm not holding on to a religion that binds to me to rituals or laws. You are a truth that lives and breathes. Unlike those who came before, I don't have a shadow of a promise, I have the living promise fulfilled. You are infecting me and I become more like you when I don't allow myself to get in the way. Anyone can have a code or creed of honor, but that's just a stone tied to your feet. I have been touched by love irresistible. The burdens I carried were taken away. I'm not following commandments. The time for that school master is gone. I'm holding the hand of the love of my life, the source of all goodness, peace, and perfect rest and walking side by side with my Savior. He isn't pointing out all my weaknesses along the way. Instead he's consumed me with himself. It's something beautiful!
One day the ocean of this change will drown me completely. The tide will rush over me when I least expect it. I look forward to that day. The day I close my eyes in this world and look face to face with my Redeemer. The day I look into the eyes of love himself. I'm on my knees waiting for that day!
In Jesus' Name,
Amen
