Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin

Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed

My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy rains
Unending love, Amazing grace

The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow
The sun forbear to shine
But God, Who called me here below
Will be forever mine
Will be forever mine
You are forever mine

Giving Up On Ourselves

something i read during QT few days ago.

a poem which helps us to realize the importance of giving up on ourselves so that we might receive grace more profoundly:

"Sever me from myself that i may be grateful to you;
may i perish to myself that i may be safe in you;
may i die to myself that i may live in you;
may i wither to myself that i may blossom in you;
may i be emptied of myself that i may abound in you;
may i be nothing to myself that i may be all in you."

"God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to." - Elisabeth Elliot