{"id":1003,"date":"2014-10-01T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T10:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2014-10-01T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:28:33","slug":"worship-wednesday-in-the-hands-of-our-redeemer-nothing-is-wasted-jason-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Worship Wednesday – In the Hands of Our Redeemer, Nothing Is Wasted – Jason Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love the words of the old prophet Joel calling God’s people to repentance with the promise that He would restore the years destroyed by locusts. Read the passage (below) and allow rejoicing to\u00a0take the place of\u00a0regret… How thankful I am for the grace, mercy, and kindness of Almighty God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, therefore,\u201d says the Lord<\/span>, <\/span>\u201cTurn to Me with all your heart,<\/span>
\nwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”<\/span><\/p>\n

So rend your heart, and not your garments; r<\/span>eturn to the Lord<\/span> your God, f<\/span>or He is<\/i> gracious and merciful, s<\/span>low to anger, and of great kindness; a<\/span>nd He relents from doing harm.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten…\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, a<\/span>nd praise the name of the Lord<\/span> your God, <\/span>Who has dealt wondrously with you;<\/span>
\nand My people shall never be put to shame…<\/span>I am<\/i> the Lord<\/span> your God<\/span>
\nand there is no other. <\/span>My people shall never be put to shame.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Joel 2:12-13, 25a, 26, 27b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jason Gray’s song Nothing Is Wasted <\/em>is poignant in its message and melody. Listening to it takes me back to those years of locusts in my own life – years in my youth when I praised God on Sunday and went my own way the rest of the week. Truth be told, I was\u00a0far from Him, taken in by the deceit of the world and the Evil One…and my own self-serving heart. How thankful I will forever be that God is such a great Restorer, a gentle Redeemer, and that, as Jason wrote, nothing is wasted in His hands.<\/p>\n

As the years have passed since that time, I have seen God use those years of brokenness in my life to tender my heart toward others struggling with the pull of the world, drawing them away from God.\u00a0Losses, failures, and disappointments\u00a0abound in this world and can cloud our view of what is true about God and His Gospel. He wants to turn our “mourning into dancing” (Psalm 30:11), and He wastes nothing in doing so.<\/p>\n

“There isn’t anything that happens that is beyond God’s reach to redeem. He gives us a place to bring our brokenness, our weakness, our sadness.” – Jason Gray<\/a><\/div>\n
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Whatever has happened in your past – whatever separates you from the hope and healing God desires for you – give it to Him. He alone is able to bear it. Then reach forward and upward…He is reaching out to you. I know…He reached very low for me, and I will love Him forever with the most grateful of hearts.<\/div>\n
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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,<\/i> forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, \u00a0<\/span><\/sup>I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.<\/span> – Philippians 3:13-14<\/div>\n
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Worship with me…<\/div>\n
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Nothing Is Wasted<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
Jason Gray, from the album A Way to See In the Dark<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The hurt that broke your heart
\nAnd left you trembling in the dark
\nFeeling lost and alone
\nWill tell you hope’s a lie
\nBut what if every tear you cry
\nWill seed the ground where joy will grow<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
(chorus)
\nNothing is wasted
\nNothing is wasted
\nIn the hands of our Redeemer
\nNothing is wasted<\/div>\n
It’s from the deepest wounds
\nThat beauty finds a place to bloom
\nAnd you will see before the end
\nThat every broken piece is
\nGathered in the heart of Jesus
\nAnd what’s lost will be found again<\/div>\n
(chorus)
\nNothing is wasted
\nNothing is wasted
\nIn the hands of our Redeemer
\nNothing is wasted<\/div>\n
(Bridge)
\nWhen hope is more than you can bear
\nAnd it’s too hard to believe it could be true
\nAnd your strength fails you halfway there
\nYou can lean on me and I’ll believe for you
\nAnd in time you will believe it too<\/div>\n
(chorus)
\nNothing is wasted
\nNothing is wasted
\nSometimes we are waiting
\nIn sorrow we have tasted
\nBut joy will replace it
\nNothing is wasted
\nIn the hands of our Redeemer
\nNothing is wasted<\/div>\n
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YouTube Video – Nothing Is Wasted – Official Music Video<\/a><\/div>\n
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Nothing Is Wasted – Thoughts on a Music Video<\/a><\/p>\n

YouTube Video – Nothing Is Wasted – Official Lyric Video<\/a><\/p>\n

Jason Gray Song Diary – Nothing Is Wasted<\/a><\/p>\n

Jason Gray Music<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo Credit – Jason Gray Music<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 I love the words of the old prophet Joel calling God’s people to repentance with the promise that He would restore the years destroyed by locusts. Read the passage (below) and allow rejoicing to\u00a0take the place of\u00a0regret… How thankful I am for the grace, mercy, and kindness of Almighty God. \u201cNow, therefore,\u201d says the … Continue reading Worship Wednesday – In the Hands of Our Redeemer, Nothing Is Wasted – Jason Gray<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[317,432,610,32,47,203],"tags":[675,676,669,673,285,677,553,1835,175,292,668,623,672,670,674,671],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-learned","category-music","category-thanksgiving-or-gratefulness","category-walk-with-god","category-wednesday-worship","category-word-of-god","tag-alone","tag-broken-heart","tag-days-of-the-locusts","tag-forgiven","tag-guilt","tag-hope","tag-jason-gray","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-loss","tag-nothing-is-wasted","tag-redeemer","tag-regret","tag-restored","tag-sadness","tag-sorrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pauPAB-gb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}