Lay Down at His Feet

I made this post when the situation around me  is unfriendly, many of my friends and I feel so tired, maybe we don’t feel tired but we feel so exhausted but God’s always reminds me through the song that I listen, and He strengtheneth me when i was in fellowship for the ministry, God’s spoke to me through the song that we sing and He remained me about “lay down at His feet”.  so I try to look for what He wants to do through His message, and suddenly when I have my daily devotion He remained me again about the “lay down at His feet” through the story of  “Jesus Anointed at  Bethany”.

The story talked about the woman who was caught in the act of adultery (Jesus save her from stoning and forgives all of her’s sinned) is try to anoint His feet with an Expensive perfume (the price is 300 denarii, as a laborer’s a year). many people even Jesus’s Disciples (John 12:4-6 ) pout her, judge her but she didn’t care what the people talking about her, but one thing that she did at the very first time she knew that Jesus was in Pharisees’s house, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume and knelt down, cried, and wiped her tears with her hair (Luke 7:36-39) and anointed His feet with an expensive perfume (John 12:3).

we are very vulnerable to sin, and easily to fall into it, or  when we feel life is very hard and we choose the wrong choices that make us fall into sin, or when we are too busy with our activity and we ignoring GOD and we feel so tired and feel there’s nothing that can help us, there just one thing that we need, “Lay down at His feet”, even though the circumstances or the people around us do not support/pout us/ judge us. we come by carrying the most important things in our lives (it can be your problems eg: problems at work, problems at the study, financial debt, problems at family, etc) and raise everything to HIM and He will do an extraordinary things/ miracles in our lives.

“All that we need is just turn back to HIM, confess our sin, and lay down at His feet”.

-RC-

BY: Raphael Christopher S.SI

Refrences:

https://www.plantcitychurchofchrist.org/articles/2012/02/05/money-in-the-gospels

Touch The Sky (Lyrics and Explanation)

I’m personally so blessed with this song, this is the lyrics and the explanation from what I thought, hope it can blessed us!

Lyrics

What fortune lies beyond the skies,

Those dazzling heights too vast to climb

I got so high to fall so far

But I found heaven as love swept low

My heart beating, my soul breathing

I found my life when I laid it down

Upward falling, spirit soaring

I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

What treasure waits within Your scars

The gift of freedom gold can’t buy

I bought the world and sold my heart

You traded heaven to have me again

My heart beating, my soul breathing

I found my life when I laid it down

Upward falling, spirit soaring

I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

Find me here at Your feet again

Everything I am, reaching out, I surrender

Come sweep me up in Your love again

And my soul will dance

On the wings of forever

Find me here at Your feet again

Everything I am, reaching out, I surrender

Come sweep me up in Your love again

And my soul will dance

On the wings of forever

My heart beating, my soul breathing

I found my life when I laid it down

Upward falling, spirit soaring

I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

My heart beating, my soul breathing

I found my life when I laid it down

Upward falling, spirit soaring

I touch the sky when my knees hit the ground

Find me here at Your feet again

Everything I am, reaching out I surrender

Come sweep me up in Your love again

And my soul will dance

On the wings of forever

Upward falling, spirit soaring

I touch the sky

When my knees hit the ground

The Meaning:

We never know what we will be, we can’t choices from which family that we will born, but if we realize who we are its not came from our self, but its just only by HIS grace. John 3:16

We never know what GOD doing in our lives and maybe some of us didn’t know what is the meaning of our lives until we face a problems that made us bow down and surrender everything to GOD (because there are no one who can help us except HIM) and from that moment GOD made us understand what is the meaning of lives and what GOD has done in our lives.

We are a vulnerable human who often fallen into sin, so what we have to do if we fall into sin is confess our sin, ask forgiveness and surrender everything to HIM.

“I Found My life and found the heaven, when my knee hit the ground”

Lyrics by : Hillsong United

Explanation by : Raphael Christopher S.SI