You Know That Feeling...

You know that feeling when you can actually feel God on your heart? For me, it's like a heavy weight gushing with love. My chest feels like it's sinking under all the love He is pressing, or pushing on me.Everything around me seems to fade away into darkness for a split second and the onely light I see is the One with my heart. Well, this is how it was tonight at church. Let me explain this to ya'.

I am an emotional person...when it comes to certain things. A romance movie: give me a box of kleenex. An animal dies: kleenex. I see someone else cry: cue me as well. Titanic: that's a given (So is P.S. I Love You) Liss, I'm sure you are rolling your eyes right now :) Songs: not so much. I never get emotional when signing a song, but will occasionally cry if the song is super, super sad and I put my self in the 'character's' place. Well wouldn't you know tonight at church, I got super teary eyed singing a hymn. We've song this hymn so many times and I never really think about what it is truly saying:

Near The Cross

Jesus, keep me near the cross

There a precious fountain

Free to all- A healing stream

Flows from Calvary's mountain

In the cross, In the cross

Be my glory ever

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river

Near the cross, a trembling soul

Love and mercy found me

There the Bright and Morning Star

Sheds its beams around me

In the cross, In the cross

Be my glory ever

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river

Near the cross! O Lamb of God

Bring its scenes before me

Help me walk from day to day

With its shadows o'er me

In the cross, In the cross

Be my glory ever

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river

Lord- be my glory ever! In the cross, there's sweet comfort and love! Something just grabbed at my soul tonight while signing this. I realized that all my wants and desires do not even compare to the want my Savior needs from me. The Cross is my want, my everything. That's what I need to get through life. It's my fuel when I am tired, my strength when I am weary, the love when I am lonely, and the light in my darkness. When the second minister stood up to finish tonight, he made such a good point. "In life, we prize our most precious materials on how long they will last and how expensive they are. But our prize is eternal. It is the most expensive, too. Nothing can last longer than heaven. Nothing can cost more than the blood of Jesus on the Cross. And the best thing- we didn't even have to pay for our eternity in heaven. Christ paid it all! Not you, not me, but Christ!" Wow! How powerful of a message! Isn't that true? Don't we judge the worth of something by how long it will last or how much it cost us? I do. But have faith knowing that if you have found Christ and accepted Him and live your day, not just going through the motions, but actually live each day for Him, you have been given the most expensive and longest lasting gift. If you haven't accepted Christ as your Saviour, it's never too late. He wants to share all of this with you. You are worthy. He died for you. There is nothing better than waking up each morning and going to bed each night knowing that you are loved by a merciful God.