Welcome to Day 7 of Part 3‘s Chapter 2 of Arise and Shine. Today, Anna is sharing our final free will offering of goats’ hair (cursed sin offering) in a poem testifying to the power of the Cross. Jesus Christ has exchanged sin’s thorny affliction for life everlasting, in His atoning sacrifice for us all. Praise Him! Anna also welcomes you to sing an old hymn of thanksgiving with her, a song Anna sung at her mother’s funeral, who went to be with the LORD in 2014.
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
COLOSSIANS 3:1-2 (NIV)
My All in All
In the thorns piercing
Again and again and again
I remember
My shame.
But You
You remember
A covenant new.
You remember
My sin
No more.
You remember
Your Son's blood
Covering me.
You remember
Grace
You remember
Your daughter
Adopted, Yours.
And now
You're teaching me
To remember too
To remember
Your Word.
To remember
A crown of thorns piercing
Again and again and again.
To remember
Love pouring forth
From a Cross.
To remember
Rejoicing.
To remember
A cloak.
To remember
A ring.
To remember
A table set
In the presence of my enemies.
To remember
Oil
Pouring on my head.
To remember
In each and every thorn
I have always found
And will always find
More of
You.
More
Grace upon grace.
More
Mercies
New every morning.
More
Compassion
That faileth not.
More
Faithfulness
In my faithlessness.
More
Perfect Love
Driving out all my fear.
More
Power
Perfected in my weakness.
For, You're teaching me
To embrace You
As:
My LORD
My Husband
My Maker.
The Lover of my soul
My Best Friend
My Rock and Redeemer.
My Savior
My shield
My refuge and the Lifter of my head.
My sword of truth
My helmet of salvation
My shield of faith
My breastplate of righteousness
And my shoes of peace.
My
All in all.
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casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)
