Take us down and lay us low
Leave ashes in place of gold
Life-giver sustainer
Let nothing remain of our
pride
From your mountain on high
Lay us low
These
are the words to Christa Well’s new song, LayUs Low. The Image of God EP was
released just the other day and I am thanking God for it – especially for the
way it poetically captures what happened last night.
We
met for one hour to confess our sins to God. How does one write about these
things? I felt that God was with us in power and grace. He kept us from all the
nearby dangers an exercise like this can fall in to and He came with
forgiveness, holiness and love. It was a powerful time and I hated to draw it
to a close. God was with us.
Another
of Wells’ songs says:
We come in pieces
We come in fragments
We come discolored
To the foot of the cross
Our Maker sees us
All that we have been
Bonds us together
The Image of God
We
left our meeting last night humbled, more in love with each and more thankful
than ever for Jesus.
The
surprising blessing to me was listening to my brothers and sisters confess. I
had thought that might be an odd thing to do, but in reality it exposed my
heart. As one brother wept for his sin, it made me see the same sin in me. As
one sister compared her sin to other actions, I thought, “That’s me, too, Lord!”
Every person who prayed led me to see more of my own sin and in turn more of the
beauty of the Gospel.
I
will never forget that night.
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