Running the Race: 11/22/10

Monday, November 22, 2010

In Christ Alone

Thanksgiving kicks off the Christmas Season! I have always been an early decorator. I just can't help it - once I start seeing all the stores and businesses decked out, it stirs something within me! I am excited about Thanksgiving week, excited to be off work a couple days and spend time with all my family and eat delicious foods! I have so much to be thankful for. Obviously God has blessed me with this beautiful house and health and a wonderful husband and 3 beautiful healthy children. But what if He didn't? Would I still be thankful? Would Jesus be enough? I hope I would. In Christ Alone is one of my favorite worship songs. I've actually just downloaded it onto my daughters itouch that she is getting for Christmas - ssshhhh - don't tell her:) I haven't been through many "droughts" in this life of mine, and for that I am thankful. They will come, God says they will, and I hope I will stand in Christ Alone no matter what.

Take a look at what brings me joy, what I've been working at. None of it really matters in the great big scheme of things, but it is my home and I try to make our home a place of peace, shelter from that great big scary world out there. But without it, we'd still be a family. And Christ would still be our Solid Rock. Back to that itouch. I'm new to the whole itunes world. I downloaded my first music ever today! I was pondering what songs Emma Claire would like on her itouch and as easy as it would have been to put popular Justin Bieber songs or Taylor Swift songs that I know Emma Claire will come to love, I decided that for now, the only music that's allowed on there are praise and worship songs. If she's going to be influenced by this world, which she will, I want her to be drowned in words of affirmation and praise for the King. Happy Thanksgiving to you all and whether you're celebrating in a home full of pumpkins or Christmas trees, be thankful for that home and the family and friends within!

Enjoy the little peak into our home:

In Christ Alone

my hope is found

He is my light, my strength, my song

This cornerstone, this solid ground

firm through the fiercest drought and storms

What heights of love, what depths of peace

when fears are stilled, when strivings cease

my Comforter, my All in All

Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ Alone, who took on flesh

fullness of God in helpless Babe

This gift of love and righteousness

scorned by the ones He came to save

Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live, I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory
Sin?s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From a life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man
Could ever pluck me from His hand
Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand

I will stand, I will stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground, all other ground
Is sinking sand, is sinking sand
So I stand

***In Christ Alone, words by Getty, Julian Keith; Townend, Stuart Richard;