Speaking of Change...

This week is Holy Week. How exciting! I mean, I got the day off on Thursday and Friday, AND I have Monday off too... amazing. Seriously though, reflecting o the cross any time is wonderful, but when everyone else is at the same time, and there are crosses on buns to remind you as you walk around tesco, and setting up an "Easter" playlist on your itunes with plenty of cross-centered songs, ahhh, so good! I love Easter! Any time is a good time to sing praises to Lord of all creation. But today particularly. I love the words of a song by Starfield - Son of God. Son of God Shaper of the stars You alone The dweller of my heart Mighty King How beautiful You are How beautiful Son of God The Father's gift to us You alone Were broken on the altar of love Precious Lamb Our freedom's in your blood It's in Your blood. Jesus Oh Holy One I sing to You Forgiven Saviour I'm overcome With Your great love for me Son of God Strength beyond compare You alone The darkness cannot bear Lord of love Your kindness draws me near It draws me Son of God Prophesy of old You alone Redeemer of my soul Come again And lead Your people home Come lead us home You are worthy, You are worthy, You are worthy of all my praise You are beautiful, You are beautiful, I will lift up my hands and sing Amazing. What a gift! Nothing can compare. Even when the sun's shining, things in all areas of life are good, exciting, and enjoyable, nothing comes close to the joy I find in Christ. In fact, I've found the past few days that as much as I'm enjoying life, enjoying these things makes me want to worship God even more and has caused me to enjoy Him more. I don't know where to start. I went to see my friends the Essams for a couple of days. Whilst I was there, God showed Marie Anne the most amazing thing. This was one of the only topics of conversation for the weekend (well not really, but it came up over and over) and I think it is well worth sharing. Galatians 2:20 in most versions says something along these lines: "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Notice "I live by faith IN the Son of God" Now, the KJV and the Greek (as we found out by calling Alan Compton) says this: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Notice "I live by the faith OF the Son of God" How amazing. We have Jesus' faith. As Oswald Chambers said, "this faith is not Paul's faith in Jesus Christ, but the faith that the Son of God has imparted to him - "the faith of the Son of God." It is no longer faith in faith, but faith which has overleapt all conscious bounds, the identical faith of the Son of God."