What Could I Do When The LORD Passed By?
You stood before creation
Forever within Your hand
You spoke all life into motion
My soul now to stand
You stood before my failure
And carried the cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon Your shoulders
My soul now to stand
So what can I say? And what could I do?
But offer this heart O God completely to You
So I’ll walk upon salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
This life to declare Your promise
My soul now to stand
So I’ll stand, with arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
I’ll stand, my soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours
Lyrics from The Stand by Hillsong.
This song was played along with clips from The Passion of the Christ in my church’s Good Friday service. Tomorrow there will be a chance for the congregation to share their walk with God during the Easter Sunday service, so tonight I was preparing myself for the sharing while listening to this song when suddenly I saw a vision.
I see myself in the side of the road that Jesus passed 2,000 years ago, the Via Dolorosa. There were crowds gathering, as a man passed by. The man was badly injured, there were blood stains and gaping wounds all over his body, and a crown of thorns in his head. Yes, he was Jesus. He was passing by, in front of me, carrying the cross - the burden of my sins - upon His shoulder. Suddenly I remembered the lyrics of this song. “What could I say? What could I do? But offer this heart o God completely to You.”
What could I do if I was there 2,000 years ago and Jesus passed right in front of me? Would my lips be able to say something to Him? Would my feet come rushing out to Him? Would my hands help Him to lift the cross that should have been mine? No. All that I could do was cry. Like tonight. And tonight I once again offer my heart and all that I am to Jesus. Thank you LORD for renewing my commitment in You. Thank you LORD for coming down and saving my soul. Thank you LORD for being my savior. This would be all that I can say. This would be all that I could do.
I love You, Jesus.
Yea, neither words nor action can be right at that very moment. Remember when the mother of Jesus come rushing and say some soothing words for Jesus? Yet Jesus gently reject it. And then some women cry and mournful when Jesus passed by, and Jesus said something like “do not mourn for Me, but mourn for your child and your family”. Nothing can stop our God once He has determined to do something. =) and that’s why we receive our salvation today, so that nobody can say that they do the salvation on their own effort.
many people would say at that moment, “God, let me DIE for You!” but Jesus would simply said, “No! But LIVE for Me!”
Comment by MightyMartin — March 23, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
Thank you for posting this. I’ve heard this song at church before and they sang it as part of the Easter service this morning. I’ve been surfing the internet trying to find the name and artist and I came across your post.
Comment by Mark — March 24, 2008 @ 3:50 am
Chette here! My Blog has moved to a new location
http://blessedchette.net/ Please be my affy again? THANK YOU!!!
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He is really a wonderful Savior…
Comment by Chette — March 27, 2008 @ 1:41 am