How Deep the Father's Love For Us | Getty & Townend Piano
🎞️ · 15.02.2023 · 05:03:12 ··· MiTTwoch ⭐ 0 🎬 0
📺 Allie Faith 🌻
🎬 · 15.02.2023 · 05:03:12 ··· MiTTwoch
😎 · 03.07.2024 · 15:40:29 ··· MiTTwoch
Your heart and soul are so precious to Jesus, there is NOTHING on earth that can ever change this! I remind myself of this often. Being adopted from a post-Communist country, I used to have so many fears and sadness over it. That I wasn’t born into love—into a loving family. Sometimes I didn’t feel worthy of love, acceptance, friendship, or belonging. Sometimes I felt I was an unmissable person, that no one would know the difference if I was never adopted. Sometimes I felt a physical weight and burden of sadness that I had limited knowledge of my past. Sometimes I wanted to cry but no tears would come out. Sometimes I wished my birth certificate were American. Because maybe then I’d feel like I was in the right place, like I wasn’t horribly out of place or a mistake.
But enter: JESUS. Psalm 139:16 says, “Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your Book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” GOD MAKES NO MISTAKE! The paragraph above above I wrote in past tense, because a while back I took all of that to Jesus and laid all my fears, insecurities, and tears and regrets and questions at His feet.
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
I’m getting to why I posted this song “How Deep the Father’s Love For Us” soon!! In 2021, I learned the US government mistakenly entered me as a green card holder for 22 years, not as a citizen. My identity was at a halt. I felt my whole world had stopped. If I wasn’t a US citizen, but wasn’t a Romanian citizen either, who the heck was I and where was I supposed to be? It was in those months of basically fighting the government for my citizenship that God reminded me of my TRUE IDENTITY in CHRIST ALONE. The songs “How Deep the Father’s Love For Us” and "In Christ Alone" were my battle cry. I had nothing earthly to cling to, and could only cling to Jesus. I was reminded time and time again that nothing would EVER separate me from Jesus Christ, His love for me, and my salvation in Him, and my eternal security. In 2021, I packaged up my adoption papers, Romanian passport and green card, and I took them to Jesus and left them at His feet, vowing to myself to never look at them again for answers of my past. Because God is in full control of my life, and I do not ever need to search for answers apart from Him! All my necessary answers are found in Jesus. My life has always been held by Him! The only thing I still hold onto is my foster mother’s name “Ioana”— “God is gracious.” He is full of grace and has been so present in all my life. Jesus is enough. And so much greater and better than anything we can hope or imagine!
"I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection
Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom"
Stuart Townend
· 15.02.2023 · 05:03:12 ··· MiTTwoch
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