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.

Thanks to Mark Boss @vork for making the photo used in the graphic available freely on Unsplash 🎁 https://unsplash.com/photos/dONAV335IGQ

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)