My Redeemer

My Redeemer 

by David Brenneman 

"There is a redeemer

Jesus, God's own Son

Precious Lamb of God, Messiah

Holy One

Jesus my redeemer

Name above all names

Precious Lamb of God, Messiah

Oh, for sinners slain

Thank you, oh my father

For giving us Your Son

And leaving Your Spirit

'Til the work on Earth is done

When I stand in Glory

I will see His face

And there I'll serve my King forever

In that Holy Place

Thank you, oh my father

For giving us Your Son

And leaving Your Spirit

'Til the work on Earth is done

There is a redeemer

Jesus, God's own Son

Precious Lamb of God, Messiah

Holy One

Thank you, oh my father

For giving us Your Son

And leaving Your Spirit

'Til the work on Earth is done

And leaving Your Spirit

'Til the work on Earth is done"

- "There is a Redeemer" - Melody Green 

Waking up to hymns in my head is perhaps the best time of my day, especially when going to bed things weigh on my mind. 

Knowing why but not knowing why are often at the forefront of my mind.  There's knowing why in the universal scheme of things and there's this little corner of the world that my life pertains to.  

Life is very difficult for me to digest at times.  Most people that I am around are extroverts and I most certainly am not.  Many strive to be leaders. I do not. Many have some incling of an idea of what they want to do in life, again, I do not.  Knowledge without direction is pretty much useless.  

I know a lot. I also know that what I know is useless without proper application.  

It's been a daily prayer for direction for me. I want to go where God wants me to go. I want to be doing what He wants me to be doing. I want to provide for my family in the right vocation for me. I want to grow in Christ.  

It's why I have been removing things from my life while at the same time replacing with beneficial things.  It's not easy at times to be intentional about positive replacements.  Satan would prefer Christians to veg out, to convince them that they've earned it.  

Is life that difficult?  Depends on your point of view and how you are in your relationship with Jesus.  

Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB95 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight."

But go back to the verses before these. 

"My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you. Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man." Proverbs 3:1-4 NASB95. 

So many people don't want instruction. They just want that microwave result. That instant response. That immediate answer. 

Patience isn't part of their thinking. Having no concept of perseverance because they know nothing of what it means to wait.

Be it waiting on people or waiting on the Lord.

What also hurts in learning is keeping an account of wrongs.  We insist on not doing what we ask God to do according to His Word.  We ask Him to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He then promises to forgive us and cast our sins as far away as the east is from the west, remembering them no more. 

Some of this may seem like I am rambling, but then again, I only write what I am prompted to write. 

My life right now is a struggle.  A struggle to move forward with things that need done when it's just not there to do it.  A struggle to helps others in their own struggles to see that they are making either good choices or terrible ones.  

Satan tries to get to every Believer.  He wants to disrupt the sanctification of the children of God.  He often doesn't have to do much because we inadvertently do much on our own with embracing our sin nature rather than the work of God in us. 

Every single Believer has a very divine reason for being born in this here this now in human history.  I have a Godly appointed job to be doing in this world. If you are a Believer so do you.  

Next comes training.  The Spirit teaches us all things.  Not just what we like or want to know, but all things.  Knowing Jesus and knowing the truth that in Christ we have an enemy.  Knowing that our sin nature will try to twist the Word of God. Knowing that our sin nature will try to get us to say and do things that have nothing to do with growing in Christ Jesus. 

Knowing that Jesus is in our corner, that we have His full support to grow in Him, should encourage us.  

We may never understand why we go through rough waters.  I am certainly fully aware of this truth.  My only warnings from the Spirit at times are simply "Rough waters ahead. Hang on."  No explanation of what kind or for how long.  

It's on me to trust in the Lord with all my heart and to not lean on my own understanding. 

It's on me to be in His Word daily. 

It's on me to spend time with Him daily in prayer.  

It's on me to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness. 

It's on me to remember that I have a Redeemer.  Job.  His reminder to himself throughout all that he suffered through was that regardless of how rough the waters were, his Redeemer lives. 

God does hear my pleas, my groanings too deep for words. He does know my tears, every single one.  He knows my pains that I cannot speak to others. He knows my fears and my struggles.  He is my Redeemer, my Savior, my Shepherd. He knows my heart. He knows that I am trying my best for Him.  He knows the days that all I want to do is cry.  He knows. 

We don't have a Savior who doesn't understand.  The Bible says quite differently than the world in this regard. He was a man of sorrows, well acquainted with grief.  He is jealous for us. He loved us enough to leave Heaven to live a sinless life and to die a cruel death, taking all the sins of all humanity upon Himself.  He took my place on calvary.  He took your place too. 

I do cry a lot actually. Many times with tears, many times without, just inside me. 

It breaks my heart to see Believer's not acting like Believer's. Not seeing that they are grieving the Spirit of God because selfishness is running so deep in them. Not seeing that they are honestly seeking their will to be done and not God's.  That they would rather disobey God to keep what they cannot. 

My Redeemer lives. He will have His day. He will cause all to see His truth. He will cause all to know Him as He is known. 

Truth is...my Redeemer lives. 

Truth is...He knows my every thought. 

Truth is...He's never left me alone. 

Truth is...His love for me is never ending.