Love has been put upon me and salvation given to me far beyond my rights. There is no place remaining, no justice that I may hold. My destruction has been replaced by the same right the morning sun has to rise each dawn, my privileges I lay aside for a purpose and right far greater. I can live however I want, slave to my own ambition and whim, or accept what I was created for: the rights of God's will.
The identity of God moves me to salvation, the revelation of His heart halts my own decline. His glory is so abundant - what He sought is the salvation of those made low. His is life so magnificent that resurrection was His final death. What right do I have to enter into this? What talent or power do I possibly posses to endear me to this adoption? I cast myself aside to lift up the name of Jesus; this is His right to my life. It is just and fair but still inadequate, so great is the super-awesome beyond greatness of this Holy One. Like no other and incomparable to all else together and apart. Love is the embodiment of His touch and Jesus is the incorruptible face, the bodily enactment of my example. It is Him I will follow and to Him I will bow. Jesus is everything and Jesus us my Lord and King. May creation declare His eternal praise, and His undiminished Glory be proclaimed by Love.
~JLB
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