In Christ Alone...

In Christ Alone
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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

Nothing can ever take that - no wind, nor rain, not lack thereof can separate us from our Father.

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

I love these lines because they - well, they don't even touch the amount of love that Christ has for us.
We STAND UNDER THE LOVE OF CHRIST!!  How amazing is that?  JESUS CHRIST, the PRINCE OF PEACE, God's only Son, loved us enough to die for us - we stand under that love!

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe

Christ didn't have to come as a little baby.  He didn't have to come to us as the son of a carpenter. Heck, He didn't have to come to this Earth at all! Yet the Prince chose to come as a helpless baby - a poor man, just like everyone else - just to die for us...

This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save

Just think about those lines for a moment... See the word gift? He didn't have to give us the mercy that He did. He suffered a life here on Earth, and gave his life to die for a world of sinners who could never be worthy of His love - and we scorned that. We made fun of the innocent life that was hanging on the Cross.Can you imagine that? Here is this man, who has been the greatest teacher you have ever heard of, and who has never done anything wrong - this man that you have begged to only be allowed to touch His robe - and He is hanging helplessly on a cruel Cross And you are sitting there making fun of Him!

'Til 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 really aren't any words to describe the meaning of those words... Here in the death of Christ, I live... It's not something that I can wrap my head around!! I am alive right now, my place in Heaven is secured right now, because of His death... His cleansing blood...

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 its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt of 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
'til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

I have no words... but maybe that's okay. Just take a moment to read those last few verses... (not the Bible verse, the verses of the song) Just take those words in. They are the WONDERFUL, AMAZING truth!!! We are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, the King!! We are His!