Before reading a few chapters of Gentle & Lowly, I would have found this song too “soft” a depiction of our Most Holy God. How many more layers of this deception does He has to unravel? So long I have believed God to be harsh, as if harshness and holiness were inseparable. God is not harsh. His righteous, fiery anger against sinners is merited entirely . . . and in Christ, He resolves it fully.
The longing Christ has for His bride the Church is so sweetly portrayed in this song. “Don’t you give up on me” is not a desperate plea in the sense that He would be incomplete without us, but rather (and this is so consistent with His character it makes me want to cry) a plea founded in how much He knows we need Him, and how much He wants to help us. Isn’t this why Christ came?He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
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I read this almost 2 hours ago and have been crying, praying, mulling, crying, ever since. I want to give up; not on God, I think, but I want to give up on me. But if God won’t give up on me I must be giving up on Him. All I know right now is I am so tired of being. I am tired of being a burden on society and my family, I’m tired of hurting people who try so hard love me. I know ending my life would have a negative impact on those who love me; I don’t want that either.
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I would miss your laugh. You’re right, I can’t do anything about how you feel. I know you’re tired. Psalm 20:7. God is capable of changing how you feel. I am not. I love you. It’s not hard to love you.
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