My Meditation Today: In Christ Alone

Well today I have decided to make the first post on my fresh and new re-designed blog and also attempt to link up with sister faith bloggers:

http://signsmiraclesandwonders.blogspot.com/2008/03/then-sings-my-soul-saturdays-inaugural.html  and http://mydestinysharinghope.com/

I am sharing a meaningful song today and  since I am a word lover, I will share the lyrics alone (also because I am not sure how to embed a video on my post yet!). The lyrics to the song “In Christ Alone” by Stewart Townsend and Keith Getty are some of the most powerful song lyrics I have ever sung along with. I find them to be humbling, powerful and emotionally captivating. I heard this song first at a Women’s Retreat sponsored by my home church at the time. The woman who sang these beautiful words, sang them with spiritual strength and sensitivity, leaving forever an impression upon me. I generally appreciate the Hymns of old as opposed to more contemporary songs for worship, however, I do also enjoy some contemporary music as well. I have to give an honorary mention to one of these: “Love Song For A Savior” by Jars of Clay. This song is my favorite celebration of the childlike faith I have and the struggle to maintain it in light of the cynicism, callousness and warfare experienced as I walk along this path of faith. You can find those lyrics and a video clip at the site listed below!

Read and meditate on the words below and be blessed, my friends!

In Christ alone my hope is found

He is my light, my strength, my song

This Cornerstone, this solid ground

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm

What heights of love, what depths of peace

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease

My Comforter, my All in All

Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh

Fullness of God in helpless babe

This gift of love and righteousness

Scorned by the ones He came to save

‘Till on that cross as Jesus died

The wrath of God was satisfied

For every sin on Him was laid

Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay

Light of the world by darkness slain

Then bursting forth in glorious Day

Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory

Sin’s curse has lost it’s grip on me

For I am His and He is mine

Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death

This is the power of Christ in me

From life’s first cry to final breath

Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man

Can ever pluck me from His hand

‘Till He returns or calls me home

Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand