- We sang a hymn tonight at RUF called "Jesus I come" (Btw- RUF is Reformed University Fellowship- its an awesome group at NCSU, come check us out Tuesday nights in Riddick 301 at 7:30!) I've just started going to RUF this semester, and one of the things I have really loved has been the music. Maybe its because I've grown up in church, but it often feels like I've been singing the same praise choruses for so long that they have ceased to mean anything to me. They are so familiar that I can just rattle them off without truly thinking the lyrics through- without really worshiping. At RUF, they only sing hymns. This was slightly intimidating at first, mainly because I often think i've got the tune, start to sing loudly, and end up belting out a very, very wrong note....
But my heart has been so ministered to by the rich lyrics. i had never sung this one before, but it brought me to tears with its simple words. The first lines go, "Out of my bondage, sorrow and night, Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come; Into Thy freedom, gladness, and light, Jesus, I come to Thee; Out of my sickness, into Thy health, Out of my want and into Thy wealth, Out of my sin and into Thyself, Jesus, I come to Thee." So simple. So overwhelming. So fundamentally life changing. What if, no matter what I was doing, I was in the process of running AWAY from my bondage and TO Jesus? What would life be like if all my energy, all my activity, all my thoughts, were part of an overall effort to propel myself forward, out of my sickness and into His health, out of my want and into His wealth, out of my sin and into Himself? Everyone wants to make the Gospel so complicated. They want to argue nit picky issues, and quibble over individual verses in Scripture. Why do we keep strapping complications to a Gospel that is really quite simple? What does it mean to be saved? Jesus I come, Jesus I come, "Out of my shameful failure and loss, Jesus I come, Jesus I come; into the glorious gain of Thy cross, Jesus, I come to Thee" Will I chose today to drop my burdens, to turn from my sin, to go running headlong with all of my might into the arms of Jesus my Savior? Will I chose today to live out my salvation? Will I shout today with all that is in me, "JESUS I'M COMING!"? This is the race we were meant to run. Will I run it today? Will you?
