From my Journal entry on:
March 18, 2016
Worship: Jesus Paid It All (O Praise the One)
I hear the Savior say,
Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper's spots
and melt the heart of stone.
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
Jesus died my soul to save,
my lips shall still repeat
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
He washed it white as snow
Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper's spots
and melt the heart of stone.
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.
And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
Jesus died my soul to save,
my lips shall still repeat
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
O Praise the One who paid my debt
And raised this life up from the dead
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow
He washed it white as snow
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Witness:
I was driving to the store and felt an emptiness in my soul. A feeling devoid of love for the Gospel of grace and weariness in studying His word or serving Him in any way, so I cried out to the Lord to make his Gospel precious to me again. I cried out to restore my desire for His Word and His service. When I came home, I prayed again that He restore the precious times I had when my wife first left me, and He sustained me with song, and I delighted in His Word. And God was ever faithful to me, He heard my cry and gave me good encouragement from a song as I sat down to His Word tonight. He gave me “Jesus Paid It All” to sing, instruct and restore me. I use to see the words “all to Him I owe” as some sort of exhortation to work hard for the Lord. Certainly, gratitude motivates my heart, but perhaps I should see this as more of a poetic way of saying of my salvation, “I owe it all to Him.” There is nothing I could do to save myself. I owe all of my salvation from sin and separation from Him to the cross of Christ. This was the answer to my cry today. Blessed be the name of the Lord!
WORD:
Ps 25:1-3
25 Toa you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
2 in you I trust, O my God.
Do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
3 No one whose hope is in you
will ever be put to shame,
but they will be put to shame
who are treacherous without excuse.
NIV |
Ps 25:1-3
25 To you, O LORD, Io lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you Ip trust;
q let me not be put to shame;
r let not my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed,s none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who aret wantonlyu treacherous.
ESV
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Ps 25:1-3
25 1 O LORD, I give my life to you.
2 I trust in you, my God!
Do not let me be disgraced,
or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat.
3 No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced,
but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.
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Ps 25:1-3
25 To You, O LORD, I alift up my soul.
2 O my God, in You aI trust,
Do not let me bbe ashamed;
Do not let my cenemies exult over me.
3 Indeed, anone of those who wait for You will be ashamed;
1Those who bdeal treacherously without cause will be ashamed
NASU
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I. Profession (Praise)
II. Prayer
III. Promise
The promises of God form the foundation upon which our prayers are made. Without them, we raise our petitions without guidance and assurance that they will be heard let alone answered. David’s confident declaration in verse three is a claim he rests on as a promise from the One to whom he raises his soul too. His prayer and praise rise out of the foundational promise that comes from His faithful God. So he could declare later in this Psalm:
Ps 25:5
my hope is in you all day long.
NIV
Ps 25:7
you are good, O Lord.
NIV
Ps 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful
NIV
I end with a quote from John Piper on the promises of God:
Suppose you are in a car race and your enemy, who doesn’t want you to finish the race, throws mud on your windshield. The fact that you temporarily lose sight of your goal and start to swerve, does not mean that you are going to quit the race. And it certainly doesn’t mean that you are on the wrong race track. Otherwise, the enemy wouldn’t bother you at all. What it means is that you should turn on your windshield wipers and use your windshield washer.
When anxiety strikes and blurs our vision of God’s glory and the greatness of the future that he plans for us, this does not mean that we are faithless, or that we will not make it to heaven. It means our faith is being attacked. At first blow, our belief in God’s promises may sputter and swerve. But whether we stay on track and make it to the finish line depends on whether, by grace, we set in motion a process of resistance—whether we fight back against the unbelief of anxiety. Will we turn on the windshield wipers and will we use our windshield washer?
. . . The windshield wipers are the promises of God that clear away the mud of unbelief, and the windshield washer fluid is the help of the Holy Spirit. The battle to be freed from sin… is “by the Spirit and by faith in the truth” (2 Thess 2:13). The work of the Spirit and the Word of the truth. These are the great faith builders.
Without the softening work of the Holy Spirit, the wipers of the Word just scrape over the blinding clumps of unbelief. Both are necessary—the Spirit and the Word. We read the promises of God and we pray for the help of his Spirit. And as the windshield clears so that we can see the welfare that God plans for us (Jer 29:11), our faith grows stronger and the swerving anxiety smooths out.
-John Piper, Future Grace (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 1995), pp. 55, 56
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