Are you still amazed by Amazing Grace?
I was in church this week and we sang a worship song that I have heard many times, yet hit me in a new way I had never thought of. The song was "Thank you God for Saving me," by Christ Tomlin and Phil Wickham. Obviously, one of the lines in it goes, "thank you God, for saving me." Now don't get me wrong, I am grateful for my salvation. I know that I did nothing to earn it and it was entirely God. But here's the thing: I think that I had ceased to be amazed that God chose to save me. I grew up in a Christian home, am a pastor's kid, went to AWANA (if you don't know what that is, you totally missed out), the whole works. It only seemed natural that I would be saved. In reality, there is nothing natural about my salvation. I was running a hell-bound race. None of the church in the world, none of the Christian parents in the world, no AWANA program, nothing could have saved me from that destiny. The only thing that pulled me out of that was the superna...