Because He Loves Me...

I have been going through the book Because He Loves Me by Elyse Fitzpatrick and it has been soo good!  I have been reminded again of the gospel and how I need the gospel not only for salvation but for daily life!  I need to think about the gospel when I am criticized or when I am struggling in a particular area of my life- I need to think and meditate on the gospel and I need it to change me!  Again this week I was realizing how easy it is to embrace the gospel when you first come to faith in Christ and then forget about the gospel for day to day life!  I realized again that in order to change and grow- I must not focus on my sin but on Christ!  Only by beholding Him am I changed into His likeness from one degree of glory to the next (2 Cor. 3:18)!  Instead of treasuring my idols, my desires and seeing my sin as glorious- I must look to the cross of Calvary and see HIM as more glorious and by beholding Him be changed!  I am praying that my day to day life would be different "because He loves me!"

O the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love
Leading onward, leading homeward to Thy glorious rest above!

O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore!
How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, nevermore!
How He watches o’er His loved ones, died to call them all His own;
How for them He intercedeth, watcheth o’er them from the throne!

O the deep, deep love of Jesus, love of every love the best!
’Tis an ocean full of blessing, ’tis a haven giving rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, ’tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!