The Alchemy of Redemption

Here's an old song that is entirely appropriate.

So what can I say?
And what can I do?
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You
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Through an old video and an old book, God sends His rescue.
About 7 hours ago, I was vexed and crying tears of frustration on the bench down at the clubhouse as I explain the predicament I was in to Shwing.
A couple of hours later, I was rewatching the skit to Everything by Lifehouse.
If you need to be moved, be touched, rediscover a love you thought you knew but had somehow lost, and if you need to cry, go watch it.
Over dinner about 4 hours ago, I was reading Finding God in Unexpected Places, which I had been reading before I lent Mu Gen as I had reader's block* and could not finish the book.

"Because the deepest strength comes only through testing...I have learnt that faith means trusting in advance what willl make sense only in reverse...
Not even the murder of God's own son could end the relationship between God and human beings. In the alchemy of redemption, that most villianous crime became a day we now call Good friday."
Philip Yancey, Finding p.224

"I once viewed foreknowledge as a "genie in a bottle" gift of magic that afoords the recipient an enviable advantage. I now see it as a rather demanding test of faith. David in exile dreaming of his coronation, Hezekiah debating fifteen-year plans, the apostle Paul riding out a Mediterranean storm, even Jesus praying in gethsemane - all had special foresight into what end awaited them, but that hardly made the process any easier. It takes an extra measure of faith to endure with patience and obedience the long hours or years that precede whatever future you know about in advance. Ask the Old Testment prophets."
Philip Yancey, Finding p.232

Well, I suppose that puts me on par with alot of people.
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So I'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
I'll stand, my soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours

Truly, I have nothing mroe to say than to offer my life, once again, up to You.
Even though that still isn't quite enough, it is all I have.



*Reader's block is particular to the book you're reading. One tends to experience it when you're
1. Reading a book at the wrong time
2. At a section of the book you're not supposed to read yet