To Know His Name

"I know you gave the world your only son for us, to know your name, to live within the savior's love! You took my place, knowing he'd be crucified, you loved, you loved people underserving"!!!! What an amazing chorus to an amazing song called To Know Your Name by Hillsong. Once again, we see the savior's love conquering all and in return, giving us life. I know I say it all the time but that one act gave us the greatest gift of all and sometimes it takes us years just to realize how privileged we are to live!!!!! It says it right there in the chorus, He loved people undeserving!!!! No one on this planet deserves that love. This last week at church it was put into a perspective that made me realize just how lucky we are. In the crucifixion of Christ, he received our sin and we received his righteousness. What this means is that when God looks at us, he does not see the sinful person, he sees the righteousness of Christ. This makes so much sense because God is a perfect God and because he cannot be associated with sin, he sees the righteousness of his son in us. How amazing is that!!!! Yah I know, kinda hard to believe because what makes us so significant that God should only see the righteousness of Christ in us and not the sin. You would think that the only thing that could be seen in us is the sin because we do it so much but no, God does not see that!!!! I do not know about you but that just makes me want cry tears of joy when I hear that. Our God is so forgiving and merciful!!! The sooner we realize it, the less scared we will be to spread his incredible love throughout this entire world and see lives transformed because of him!!!!