“break”

Day 128 

Yes, spring break week is, in fact oh-good-now-I-can-work-40-hours-to-make-money-and-catch-up-on-the-several-hundred-pages-of-reading-I-have-put-off-during-the-first-half-of-the-semester-when-I-was-doing-a-zillion-other-things week. I don’t mind it really – in fact, I’d rather be doing what I’m doing this week than take time off to go on a vacation. I can get a jump on some of the second half of semester responsibilities this way. It’s a more relaxed pace and as long as I can get a good night sleep, I’ll feel refreshed. Besides, I’ll be taking off 2.5 weeks from school and work in a mere 128 days . . . I can’t wait!

Onward.

Yesterday, we sang in church again . . . 5 of us this time, and another one of my favorites, emphasizing a believer’s position in Christ.

“Before the throne of God above/I have a strong and perfect plea/A great high priest whose name is Love/Who ever lives and pleads for me./My name is graven on his hands/My name is written on his heart/I know that while in heaven he stands/No tongue can bid me thence depart.

When Satan tempts me to despair/And tells me of my guilt within/Upward I look and see him there/Who made an end of all my sin/Because the sinless Savior died/My sinful soul is counted free/For God the just is satisfied/To look on him and pardon me.

Behold him there, the Risen Lamb/My perfect, spotless righteousness/The great unchangeable I AM/The King of glory and of grace/One with himself I cannot die/My soul is purchased by his blood/My life is hid with Christ on high/With Christ my Savior and my God.”

I love this song because of it’s correct perspective on both me as a sinful human being and Christ as the sinless One who died in my place. He alone is my righteousness.