Awe

God spoke to me during Sunday School:

"Now I can
Trade these ashes in for beauty
And wear forgiveness like a crown
Coming to kiss the feet of mercy
I lay every burden down
At the foot of the cross"

He also spoke to me during worship on Saturday:
"Laid aside Your majesty
Gave up everything for me
Suffered at the hands of those you have created

You took all your guilt and shame
When You died and arose again
Now today You reign
In heaven and earth exalted"

It suddenly hit me. He gave up SO MUCH for us. And yet, it's so difficult for us to lay aside our hopes and our plans. We pin our hopes on the ephemeral. But this is a GOD who laid aside His whole identity, His majesty and greatness, and power and authority, to become Man for us all. And it wasn't just the act of dying on the cross for us (I couldn't get a sense of the awe of the death of the cross for a long time. After all, so many others died the same way then too) Rather, it was the fact that He had planned it all from time memorial, from the moment He made His first creation. For it was already prophesied in the Old Testament that God had a grand plan, which involved the Son of God. And this was all to prepare the way for Jesslyn Chia to go back to God in the end.

That was a surreal moment.