Nothing Else

“I’m caught up in Your presence,

I just want to sit here at Your feet,

I’m caught up in this holy moment,

I never want to leave.”

You’ve all heard that Cody Carnes song right? If not, you should. It is the perfect definition of what intimacy with Christ is.

Do you ever have those days where you wake up and walk into work with piles of junk? Or maybe your piles are at home where you take care of your kids. Maybe they are on the mission field. Maybe they are in your heart. Physical and emotional junk. Regardless, it is there, and your body, mind and soul just crave peace.

That day is today for me. The things of vacation days passed are piled up on my desk. There are on-going sick kid struggles at home. I have a 19-year-old trying to launch her life and part of me wants her to launch a little faster and the other part wants to cry because she will be gone. Past fears and failures seem to haunt me when stress ensues. In general, my mind, heart, and soul feel taxed. And right now I want to nothing else more than to sit at the feet of Jesus where it is peaceful and safe. I just want Christ.

And I sit here typing this, one phrase plays over and over in my mind. Abide in Me. Abide in Me. Abide in Me. And I am reminded of how important it is for us in these times of chaos to just be still and know that He is God. That He was and is and ever will be. No matter my failures, no matter my regrets, no matter my stresses, no matter my worries He is my constant. It is that simple and it is that profound.

“I’m sorry when I’ve come with my agenda,

I’m sorry when I forgot that You’re enough,

Take me back to where we started,

I open up my heart to you.”

I forget that He is enough so often as I get caught in the day to day of the world. I complicate things and I make them messy out of my imperfectness. And yet when I kneel at His feet and repent, I am forgiven. How undeserving of that am I? Yet I receive grace upon grace upon grace.

There is no moment more intimate and there is no gift more beautiful than the acceptance of grace.

So when your junk feels heavy or you feel messy and imperfect or when you are stressed just remember: 1. Abide in Him; 2. Be still and know that He is God; 3. He was and is and ever will be; 4. And His grace is sufficient for you.

Grace Upon Grace. We need nothing else.

2 Corinthians 12:9 “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”