Loosely based on MacArthur’s message on our lifelong battle against sin, and how we, although having being made a new creation, have our old body of decay strapped to our backs.
So saving faith always grows in a heart humbled for sin, in a weeping eye and a tearful conscience.
Thomas Watson
In Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus explains the path to eternal life, where the “gate which is narrow, and the way is hard”. To be a Christian is to suffer or struggle, but in the context that it is through the redeeming work of the cross that we have eternal victory, and therefore any struggles we do have while still alive are mere light momentary afflictions (throwback!).
I won’t lie, from early to mid-May my mental health was struggling really hard, prompting the 2nd half of this song. I contemplated the eternal, infinite sleep, thinking that it would be the better alternative to the hardships and struggles of life. Yet, this is a blatant lie! Our hope isn’t in our circumstances, nor are they in “positive vibes” or sunny dispositions; our hope is in King Jesus, the one who suffered immeasurably more, to the point of even suffering on the cross, for the atonement of sins and freedom from the infinite sleep by rising victoriously over death itself. So no, death isn’t the answer to our struggling.
Go past the jump for the lyrics, to hear/download the song, and a technical bonus.
Hello World, 2019; it’s been a while since I’ve completed an original song.
I just finished reading Paul Tripp’s “Suffering”, and it was an eye-opener on how we experience suffering and how we can grow and rejoice through it. In the final chapter of the book, we are reminded of Paul’s struggle in 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, in which he refers to his suffering as a light momentary affliction. And such is the truth that we suffer for only a moment, for we have victory and hope over suffering because of the redeeming work of the Cross!
Go past the jump for the lyrics and hear/download the song.