{"id":8459,"date":"2016-03-16T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2016-03-16T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:29:27","slug":"worship-wednesday-you-are-i-am-with-mercyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=8459","title":{"rendered":"Worship Wednesday – You are I AM – with MercyMe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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God said to Moses, \u201cI am who I am<\/strong>.\u201d And he said, \u201cSay this to the people of Israel, \u2018I am has sent me to you.\u2019\u201d <\/em>– Exodus 3:14<\/a>
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Jesus said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”<\/span> Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.”<\/em> – Matthew 16:15-17<\/a><\/p>\n

When we get right down to the most important questions of life, what are they? I can’t imagine any other more weighty questions to wrestle out than these two: Who is God and who am I…are we…in relation to Him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

God, the Creator and Redeemer of His creation, makes Himself known to us through 1) His Word<\/a>; 2) His very creation (this beautiful natural world); 3) His people throughout history; 4) His Son (through his teaching, life, death, burial and resurrection); 5) the circumstances of our own lives; and 6) His Holy Spirit who draws us to the Father and empowers us, as only God can, to live life.<\/p>\n

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There comes a time in all our lives, really, when we must answer that question for ourselves. C. S. Lewis<\/a>, a great British scholar and writer, was a studied critic of Christianity for many years. Then he came to the place of realizing that the God he detested was actually the very Person he could no longer contest. Lewis, in fact, was utterly surprised by joy<\/a> <\/em>as all his arguments finally crumbled in a heap at the astonishing conclusion of his that God is indeed God<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere . . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.”<\/i> – C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: \u201cI\u2019m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don\u2019t accept His claim to be God.\u201d That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic \u2014 on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg \u2014 or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.\u201d\u00a0 – <\/em>C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity<\/a>
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I don’t mean to be offensive, except to say (not as well as C. S. Lewis) that responding to God’s calling me to Himself and walking with Him, however falteringly, have given inexhaustible meaning to my life. I look forward to an eternity of knowing more and more of God and being in the company of those who also responded to His call and claim on their lives…out of our own desperate need for a Savior.<\/p>\n

The band MercyMe<\/a> and friends wrote a song that speaks to our human condition and how we answer the questions of who God is. The lyrics were packed with the acts of God and our own struggle past our weakness and doubts to know Him. Praise Him, He makes Himself known to us. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n

Worship<\/a> with me.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been the one to shake with fear
\nAnd wonder if You’re even here<\/p>\n

I’ve been the one to doubt Your love
\nI’ve told myself You’re not enough<\/p>\n

I’ve been the one to try and say
\nI’ll overcome by my own strength<\/p>\n

I’ve been the one to fall apart
\nAnd start to question who You are<\/p>\n

You’re the one who conquers giants
\nYou’re the one who calls out kings
\nYou shut the mouths of lions
\nYou tell the dead to breathe
\nYou’re the one who walks through fire
\nYou take the orphan’s hand
\nYou are the one Messiah
\nYou are I am<\/p>\n

I’ve been the one held down in chains
\nBeneath the weight of all my shame<\/p>\n

I’ve been the one to believe
\nThat where I am You cannot reach<\/p>\n

You’re the one who conquers giants
\nYou’re the one who calls out kings
\nYou shut the mouths of lions
\nYou tell the dead to breathe
\nYou’re the one who walks through fire
\nYou take the orphan’s hand
\nYou are the one Messiah
\nYou are I am
\nYou are I am<\/p>\n

The veil is torn and now I live
\nWith the spirit inside
\nThe same one, the very same one
\nWho brought the son back to life<\/p>\n

Hallelujah, He lives in me
\nHallelujah, He lives in me
\nHallelujah, He lives in me
\nHallelujah, He lives in me<\/p>\n

You’re the one who conquers giants
\nYou’re the one who calls out kings
\nYou shut the mouths of lions
\nYou tell the dead to breathe
\nYou’re the one who walks through fire
\nYou take the orphan’s hand
\nYou are the one Messiah
\nYou are I am
\n(Hallelujah, He lives in me)
\nYou are I am
\n(Hallelujah, He lives in me)<\/p>\n