Monday, October 19, 2009, 6:04 a.m. – I woke to this song:
Much Too High A Price / Jesus Paid It All / Phil McHugh and Greg Nelson
Your love endured the cross, despising all the shame,
That afternoon when midnight fell Your suffering cleared my name.
And that sin-swept hill became the open door to paradise
Because You paid so high a price.
You paid much too high a price for me, Your tears, Your blood, the pain –
To have my soul just stirred at times yet never truly changed.
You deserve a fiery love that won’t ignore your sacrifice
Because You paid much too high a price.
Your grace inspires my heart to rise above the sin
And all the earthly vanity that seeks to draw me in.
I want to tell a jaded world of love that truly saved my life,
A love that paid so high a price.
Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe,
Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed me white as snow.
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Amos 4:
My Understanding: I love the words to the song, Much Too High a Price. Truly Jesus paid much too high a price to free us from our sins only for us to be just stirred at times but never truly changed. This passage of scripture paints a grim, yet accurate picture of much of today’s church and of those who have disregarded Jesus’ sacrifice for them on the cross. The picture here is of those who practice religion but they don’t truly have heart changes. They claim to know God, but their hearts are far from him.
These are very religious people who tithe and give freewill offerings but then they turn around and brag about them. They heap sin upon sin, even apparently blending sin with religious practice, and they have not returned to the Lord. Thus, God must send his judgment upon them. He tells them to “prepare to meet your God.” Even though God has sent judgment after judgment to try to get them to return to him, they have not. They have continued in their rebellion and have refused to repent. So, what is coming next will be much more severe than any form of divine discipline he has rendered before.
God is calling out to his people to repent, to turn from their rebellious ways, to serve him with all their hearts, not merely with religious practices. He doesn’t want just our occasional emotional stirrings. He wants our absolute and complete devotion, surrender and obedience to him as an act of love. Jesus did pay such a high price to free us, not just from the punishment of sin but also to free us from bondage to sin on a day to day basis. He came to set us free! We don’t have to remain captives to sin any longer! We can live in complete victory, though not necessarily in sinless perfection, at least not while we are still in these bodies. Yet, we can live victorious Christian lives through Jesus Christ, and Him alone and through what he did for us on the cross in dying for our sins and in conquering death, hell and sin.
HE deserves a fiery love that won’t ignore HIS sacrifice
Because HE paid much too high a price.
Won’t you give him your all today?
Much Too High A Price / Jesus Paid It All / Phil McHugh and Greg Nelson
Your love endured the cross, despising all the shame,
That afternoon when midnight fell Your suffering cleared my name.
And that sin-swept hill became the open door to paradise
Because You paid so high a price.
You paid much too high a price for me, Your tears, Your blood, the pain –
To have my soul just stirred at times yet never truly changed.
You deserve a fiery love that won’t ignore your sacrifice
Because You paid much too high a price.
Your grace inspires my heart to rise above the sin
And all the earthly vanity that seeks to draw me in.
I want to tell a jaded world of love that truly saved my life,
A love that paid so high a price.
Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe,
Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed me white as snow.
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Amos 4:
My Understanding: I love the words to the song, Much Too High a Price. Truly Jesus paid much too high a price to free us from our sins only for us to be just stirred at times but never truly changed. This passage of scripture paints a grim, yet accurate picture of much of today’s church and of those who have disregarded Jesus’ sacrifice for them on the cross. The picture here is of those who practice religion but they don’t truly have heart changes. They claim to know God, but their hearts are far from him.
These are very religious people who tithe and give freewill offerings but then they turn around and brag about them. They heap sin upon sin, even apparently blending sin with religious practice, and they have not returned to the Lord. Thus, God must send his judgment upon them. He tells them to “prepare to meet your God.” Even though God has sent judgment after judgment to try to get them to return to him, they have not. They have continued in their rebellion and have refused to repent. So, what is coming next will be much more severe than any form of divine discipline he has rendered before.
God is calling out to his people to repent, to turn from their rebellious ways, to serve him with all their hearts, not merely with religious practices. He doesn’t want just our occasional emotional stirrings. He wants our absolute and complete devotion, surrender and obedience to him as an act of love. Jesus did pay such a high price to free us, not just from the punishment of sin but also to free us from bondage to sin on a day to day basis. He came to set us free! We don’t have to remain captives to sin any longer! We can live in complete victory, though not necessarily in sinless perfection, at least not while we are still in these bodies. Yet, we can live victorious Christian lives through Jesus Christ, and Him alone and through what he did for us on the cross in dying for our sins and in conquering death, hell and sin.
HE deserves a fiery love that won’t ignore HIS sacrifice
Because HE paid much too high a price.
Won’t you give him your all today?
