My Weak Glance

There is this song that has been touching my heart lately.
And some scripture that can be put along side that.
Here it goes...and all comes out.

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There is this song called "Dark But Lovely" by Sarah Edwards.
The whole song is wonderful,
but the bridge jumped out at me.

"Somehow my weak glance has overwhelmed You
(And) Somehow my weak love has stolen away Your heart."
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We talk about as Christians how we are weak, yet He is strong.
We sing about it, talk about it, preach about it, and claim it as who we are.

But what is it that we are really saying?
What is it that we are really claiming?

(I've been asking God to show me how much it/what it really means to Him when I sing lyrics that glorify Him. I want to truly know the meaning of the words I'm singing. Without God, they are empty lyrics...without God, the song becomes cool lyrics with a sweet melody.)

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In Job 34:14-15 and 21-22 it says:
"[14] If it were His intention and He withdrew His Spirit and breath [15] all man-kind would perish together and man would return to dust. [21] His eyes are on the ways of men; He sees their every step. [22] There is no dark place, no deep shadow, where evil-doers can hide."
-->God is in charge of literally everything. There is no way I (or anyone) can hide anything from God. He is an all-knowing God.


How powerless are we? If God withdrew--if He threw in the towel and quit on us, we LITERALLY would turn back to the dust of the ground that we came from. If His Spirit withdrew, we would instantly become meaningless--which without meaning we are nothing--we would no longer be. We would have no purpose.

God is in charge of everything; there is no place to hide or way to cover up something disapproving of God. He LITERALLY holds the power--if He withdrew, we would go back to nothing. The only meaning on this Earth that we hold is that God sees worth in us. He is our source of life--He put breath in our lungs and created us/designed us to be in existence so He can be glorified. If He were to withdraw our only meaning would be gone, which we would go back to being worthless and return to the dust for there is no use in us. 
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When I mess up, I often have a hard time turning to God for forgiveness.
I let the one who put worth in me down, and I feel I need to make it up somehow.
But how?
Often times, I will wait over the course of a few days and hopefully have "less sinful" days. I then feel that I can go to God and apologize--that because of a success moment(s) God will turn His face back to me--that I got His attention back for doing something right--He is probably more ready to forgive my previous sin now, and I present my case, as if I was in court.
THE TRUTH?
After one single time of me sinning, (which happened when I was basically born because we are born with a sinful nature/are born with sin) God had every right to give up on me--just one time makes me fall short for eternity-- (Romans 3:23) but because He died on the cross for me, I am free. When God was on the cross, He had every sin I have already committed and every sin that I will commit (the duration of my entire life) on Him--He died so my sin could die--my sin died the day He died on the cross. There was so much sin on Him that His Father, God up above had to turn His face away. When it was finished, freedom was born, and worth in each of us was created.
The compassionate Love in His heart decided that I was worth more than the sin that holds me to my death sentence.
SO HOW DOES THIS APPLY?
Remember how I talked about feeling like I needed to make my case? Wait for a "better day" to cancel out my sin from the previous day?

-->I don't have to do that. You don't have to do that.

-> God will never turn His face away from us. The Love and Compassion that He has for each of us is stronger than the sin that we live in. The act of turning away from us has already been done; it was just our sin that was turned away from (not us), which Jesus's power was strong enough to overcome, and replaced it with forgiveness and love. Our sin has already endured the punishment--it's unforgiveness that comes with it already died. Put your name is the upcoming blank:
"I love _______ so much! I'm so excited to set him/her free from death--to show him/her the Love that My Father created!" --Jesus while on the Cross.


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So, now what? What can do with knowing this?
Say Thank-You.
Know that all Jesus wants from you is to Love Him; to sit with Him; to get to know Him.
He even can fill your heart with the Love that He wants from you--the Love that He created--the Love that He used to die for you on the cross. All you have to do is use it to Love Him. Thank Him. Decide that living for Him is a life worth Living.
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When you choose to Love Him, His heart is overjoyed. When you look up at Him, even if you are struggling in life and barely can--when you feel like your failing and barely have any strength left--the fact that you are looking at Him with all (little or much) you have, even if it is for a small glance at a time--His heart is filled with joy.
-We are weak--we hold no power--we cannot hide anything--we cannot do anything on our own strength----yet He loves us with all He has, which is infinite.

Apply this now:

"Somehow, my weak glance
It overwhelmes You, God.
Somehow my weak Love,
Has stolen away Your Heart."
Thanks Jesus.


NOTE:
Dark But Lovely by Sarah Edwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_6mnWl4b_Y

Another song that displays this well:
A Little Longer--Bethel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHfGwKeRdw