Moonlight

Sunday, March 23, 2008

How Could I Live - Hillsong United

How could I live without You
How could I survive
Without Your love
Without Your touch
You're the One that heals me
And cleanses my heart
And sets me free

Now I come right before You
With my hands lifted up
With my heart humbly bowed
At Your work on the cross
As You hang there and die
You were paying the price
For my life, For my life

For Your love is higher than the heavens
Deeper than the seas
And all I want is You in my life
No one else can satisfy my soul
Can make me feel this way
Only You Lord, only You

- posted by Delia @ 10:02 PM

He Lives

He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks with me
along life's narrow way.
He lives, He lives, salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives?
He lives within my heart.

The 2 days have really passed quickly and YES! He Lives within my heart. :D It is really amazing how deep the Lord loves us. We now have power over Sin, Death and Sorrow and if christians doubt that Jesus did rise from the dead, in Corinthinas 15 1:20 the bible says he did.

I realise that in my whole two years of JC life I didn't really post anything, but I have a testimony to share.

I'm not someone whom people would call "smart/clever/gifted/intelligent". I'm just average and sometimes I think that I'm even below average! I really struggled in my studies in my second year. I was still failing my major subjects. For Literature, I never, in my whole 2 years of JC life, ever saw a grade other than U which stands for ungraded. That was how bad I was. I just couldn't understand what was wrong and even when I tried changing my method it was still wrong!

Prelims came and boy were my grades horrible! Initially I was thinking of applying to Uni first but after seeing my grades, every door just slammed shut in my face. On top of that, I was facing a personal problem where my friend and I had a fall out, affecting our group project. (But that's another post another time)

I was literally and figuratively at the end of my rope. I didn't know what to do, I saw no way out. My parents and I were even discussing alternative routes besides As thinking of just using my o-lvl grades and try doing a foundation year. It was that bad. But we decided to pray about it and leave it to God. That was when I saw this movie "Facing the Giants" (come to think of it now, it really is an apt title to describe my position at that time. Me facing the BIG As)

And there was one line that really caught my attention. Revelations 3:7~8 "What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."

When I heard that and read it in the bible the feeling was incredible! I can't describe that feeling for it is something you have to go through personally with God. My worries vanished, my strength replenished and He is my Hope. He brought me out of that deep end and the grades I got was something that I never thought I would ever get. Now He has opened doors for me!

This is for those who like me felt lost, confused, filled with doubts, take heart for there is hope. Let God work that miracles in your life today for He Lives. :D

- posted by Delia @ 8:45 PM

Via Dolorosa by Sandi Patti

Down the Vía Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day
The soldiers tried to clear the narrow street
But the crowd pressed in to see
The Man condemned to die on Calvary

He was bleeding from a beating, there were stripes upon His back
And He wore a crown of thorns upon His head
And He bore with every step
The scorn of those who cried out for His death

Down the Vía Dolorosa called the way of suffering
Like a lamb came the Messiah, Christ the King,
But He chose to walk that road out of
His love for you and me.
Down the Via Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary.

Por la Vía Dolorosa, triste día en Jerusalém
Los soldados le abrían paso a Jesús.
Más la gente se acercaba,
Para ver al que llevaba aquella cruz.

Por la Vía Dolorosa, que es la via del dolor
Como oveja vino Cristo, Rey y Señor,
Y fue Él quien quiso ir por su amor por ti y por mí.
Por la Vía Dolorosa al Calvario y a morir.

The blood that would cleanse the souls of all men
Made its way through the heart of Jerusalem.

Down the Vía Dolorosa called the way of suffering
Like a lamb came the Messiah, Christ the King
But He chose to walk that road out of His love for you and me
Down the Vía Dolorosa, all the way to Calvary.

When I first heard this song on Good Friday, it really touched my soul. I was crying when I heard it and saw the pictures of Jesus Christ carrying the own Cross. Bloody with whip marks, you could literally hear the crowd jeering. But all you'll see in His eyes is love.

God loves us so much that He had to give up the darling of Heaven. Even from the beginning, in Genesis, His covenant was unconditional. The covenant that He gave Abraham, the covenant that He gave Noah. Yet nothing was as great as the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. (Amen!) For because of His love for us, we can now have a personal relationship with God.

- posted by Delia @ 6:13 PM