Rebecca St. James - The Power Of Your Love
The weaknesses I see in me
Will be stripped away
By the power of Your love.
Do you know what was one of the happiest days of my academic life? The last day of my last physical education class! I thought, Yippee! No more forced sweating! Now I belong to a gym, and I pay for the privilege of sweating. Life is strange.
I bring up the notion of the high school or college physical education class as an example. If I want to change my physical body, I have to do physical exercise. It is hard work, stressful, and not very enjoyable. I know that people say, "Find an exercise you like." But lying on the couch while reading a book doesn't burn very many calories. No, physical change takes physical work.
Spiritual change, becoming renewed in your ways of thinking and acting according to the Word of God, requires spiritual exercise. You have to give the Word of God serious time on a regular basis. And just like the physical, you can blow all the good efforts made in public by being lazy in private. If I work out four times a week and then go home and eat nothing but chocolate cake, I will still gain weight. If I go to church on Sunday, but do not meditate on God's Word to apply it to my everyday life, I will become spiritually out of shape.
I've seen this happen. Good people who go to church faithfully yet live bitter, angry lives. Why? Because they have not taken the time to let the things they hear in church penetrate their hearts. They have not taken their personal relationship with Jesus personally.
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God" (Romans 12:2 NKJV).
In the song "The Power of Your Love," Rebecca St. James sings that the power of God's love will change us. The Holy Spirit at work in us will help us to strip away our weaknesses. But the only way we can see those weaknesses and have the power to overcome them is by drawing near to the Lord. And the primary way to do that is through His Word.
Set aside some time each day to spend time in the Word of God. Go into a spiritual training program. You may find that it requires some hard work. You may find it uncomfortable at times. You may even sweat a little. But if you will continue to study His Word, apply it to your life and conform to it, you will become spiritually fit. You will live the life He died to give you. And you will show the light of His love to others. I know it may sound difficult, but don't ever discount the power of His love.
Let His love change you!
Written by Suzy C