...new things....

I unwrapped the factory sealed CD and put it into the Bose player and suddenly pipe organ music speed through my head, heart and memories..........  the Moody Church pipe organ.  As majestic as I remember it and as positively ominous as Torrey Grays's pipe organ.  Both increadibly awesome!!
I cried as memories swept over me.

Listening to KLOVE I heard something along the lines of: it's not how God fits into our life but how we fit into God's life....  God wants us/me to fit as intimately as I feel with Danni and Jordan, yet for all this time, I still was trying to fit God into my life.

Then the tune was running through my head as I was creating pizza sauce:  He sought me and bought with His redeeming love ........ all my love is due Him.....  "Victory in Jesus"
In response to the sacrifice Christ made on the cross, I should have only a desire for total intimacy with Him....from the start.   But was I ever taught this was important?  I was taught it is important to know my doctrines, how to help someone recieve Jesus, how to serve Him; but be intimate with Him?  No, never.

Redeem
1. To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum = Jesus, the Shepherd's life!
2. To pay off the debt of my sin
3. To turn in and receive something in exchange.  His life for my sin
4. To fulfill the OT spoke always of the Messiah, who would redeem His people
5. To set free; rescue or ransom.  yes it was a ransom... not until the Shepherd's life life was shed could anyone, me, have sins forgiven which means a relationship with Jesus.
"Christianity is fundamentally a love relationship with God, available through faith in Christ and nurtured through the faithful embrace of a variety of spiritual disciplines.  The Holy Spirit will empower your participation in such activities as prayer, Scripture reading, solitude, silence and service."
7. To save from a state of sinfulness and its consequences. DEATH ETERNALLY
8. To restore the honor, worth, or reputation of:  restoring me to the state God sees me in FORGIVEN and HIS CHILD, sinless.

WOW ! Redemption is a powerful thing !! I am then reminded of And Can It Be that I should gain .... 
An interest in the Saviour's blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain
For me, who Him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be,
That Thou, my God, shoulds't die for me?

'Tis mystery all! The Immortal dies:
Who can explore His strange design?
In vain the first-born seraph tries
To sound the depths of love divine.
'Tis mercy all! let earth adore,
Let angel minds inquire no more.

He left His Father's throne above,
So free, so infinite His grace,
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam's helpless race:
'Tis mercy all, immense and free;
For, O my God, it found out me!

Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature's night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray,
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth and followed Thee.

Still the small inward voice I hear,

That whispers all my sins forgiven;
Still the atoning blood is near,
That quenched the wrath of hostile Heaven.
I feel the life His wounds impart;
I feel the Savior in my heart.  (I've not heard this verse before)

No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach the eternal throne,
And claim the crown, through Christ my own.
~~CharlesWes­ley
I am not so sure that the word's would move me if not the tune was as powerful as it is.


I do not boldly approach God as I would Tim or had my own Dad, to claim whom I am, though Christ is mine, for my sins have been forgotten.  This denial I make is a huge disappointment to my Lord, my Shepherd.  
It is time to be drawn and continue to recognize His voice.