Never underestimate my Jesus

Gosh, I love this song so much, I just had to post it:

For the Moments I Feel Faint - Relient K

Am I at the point of no improvement?
What of the death I still dwell in?
I try to excel, but I feel no movement
Can I be free of this unreleasable sin?


Never underestimate my Jesus
You're telling me that there's no hope
I'm telling you your wrong

Never underestimate my Jesus
When the world around you crumbles
He will be strong, He will be strong


I throw up my hands
"Oh, the impossibilities"
Frustrated and tired
Where do I go from here?
Now I'm searching for the confidence I've lost so willingly
Overcoming these obstacles is overcoming my fear

I think I can't, I think I can't
But I think you can, I think you can
I think I can't, I think I can't
But I think you can, I think you can
Gather my insufficiencies and
Place them in your hands, place them in your hands, place them in your hands


When I heard that song for the first time in a while, it sort of impressed on me the "my Jesus." I never had really thought about it like that before - I always thought of it as I'm his, but he's also my Jesus. The Sunday after I heard the song again, we sang the song (I forget what it's called) with the lines "for I am his and he is mine." Mine. The other part that really got to me was "you're telling me that there's no hope, I'm telling you you're wrong." I recently saw The Passion. That movie was... amazing. It was so sad. It impressed the "Jesus did that for me" feeling pretty deeply. But what that has to do with the aforementioned lines is that there was no hope for this world until Jesus came and did that for us. For you. For me. We could never have had his Spirit, never know his presence. And we would have no hope. That's why Jesus came. Because he loved us. He made us, but we, his creatures, rebelled against him and turned our backs on him. But after all that, he still loved us so much to be beaten so severely that he didn't even look like the same person, and to be nailed to a cross, hanging there from iron nails, with a crown of sharp, hard, painful thorns driven into his head. And then everybody yelling at him, a man hardly able to stand, covered in blood, to crucify him and let a fierce murderer go free. And that was me. That was you. Demanding that Barabbas be handed over and Jesus be killed. But he did that because he loved us.

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5