Christian Reflection and Prayer

by Tenth Avenue North

I’m Tired I’m worn
My heart is heavy
From the work it takes to keep on breathing
I’ve made mistakes
I’ve let my hope fail
My soul feels crushed by the weight of this world
And I know that you can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left

Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart that’s frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise from the ashes of a broken life
And all that’s dead inside can be reborn
Cause I’m worn

I know I need to lift my eyes up
But im too weak
Life just won’t let up
And I know that you can give me rest
So I cry out with all that I have left

Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart that’s frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise from the ashes of a broken life
And all that’s dead inside can be reborn
Cause I’m worn
My prayers are wearing thin
And I’m worn
Even before the day begins
I’m worn
I’ve lost my will to fight
I’m worn
Heaven come and flood my eyes

Let me see redemption win
Let me know the struggle ends
That you can mend a heart that’s frail and torn
I wanna know a song can rise from the ashes of a broken life
And all that’s dead inside can be reborn
Cause all that’s dead inside will be reborn

Though I’m worn
Yeah I’m worn

Recently our pastor at our Princeton Church wrote an article
about the church. If I may I like to quote a couple of short
paragraphs from his message.

"This vision of connecting with
God comes straight from Scripture. From beginning to end
of God's Word, it is clear that God has always desired to
have a people, who were intimately known by Him and who
would love Him in return. In the beginning, He made us---
male and female---in His image, that is to say, in a unique
relationship with our Creator, capable of knowing Him,
serving Him, and embodying His attributes in the world that
He had made. That special connection was lost through the
entrance of human sin; God's image in us was broken. The
rest of the story of the Bible is about the lengths to which
God has gone to re-connect us with Himself and to restore
us to the image of God.

First, He revealed our sinfulness
and the need to obey Him through His law. Then in the
story of Israel, He showed us how impossible it is for us to
keep His law and obey as we ought. Something more was
needed to free us from the power of sin so that we could
walk in trust and obedience with our Creator again.

This is where the Gospel enters in. The Gospel is the
Good News that in the person of Jesus Christ, God has
entered human history to overcome the power of sin and
death in the world. By Jesus death and resurrection, the
power of God's kingdom has been unleashed into the world.
New creation is possible, including new birth within human
hearts, as we turned back in the direction of our Creator by
His Holy Spirit. We are getting re-connected to God!
Revelation, the last book of the Bible, gives us many
pictures of the successful outcome of God's work. He will
one day gather a great assembly, from every people group
on earth! As it was in the beginning, all of these people will
forever enjoy an intimate connection with our God, who has
gone to such great lengths to save us!"

AMEN!!!

"that the world may believe...that it was You
who sent Me and that I have loved them as
much as You loved Me" (John 17:21,23).

A former agnostic recalls the following
conversation he once had with a prominent
University chaplain:

"If God exists, somebody in all the centuries
would have seen Him."

"Many people have."
"Who?"
"I, for one."
"You've seen God?"
"Yes."
"Then what does He look like?"
"Like everything."
"That means nothing."

"It means a great deal to me. I look at you and
I see God. Wherever my eye falls I see God.
He is as real to me as you are, more real in
fact, for He is the changeless in the changing --
the changeless ever-present spirit that inhabits
all things."

IS HE REAL TO YOU?