Lead Me To Calvary

Thank you all who prayed for me! God really healed my throat the day of my IPPT. Though I didn't do as well as expected (15s from Silver pfft) I still want to thank God. Because of my flu I haven't been running for a week and still my weight dropped to 74kg (which is even lower than my OCS days, a record!) It was His being that kept me on my knees praying and His grace that healed me. My throat is back to normal and I can sing once again! But thinking about it, quite a bit of my esteem is based on my voice. I can actually feel sianz when I can't sing or talk.

Sometimes I just want to wake up with a BIG signboard on the bed ceiling that has something like "God Exists" or "Is Your Heart At Calvary?" There are days when I wake up feeling great, like I'm at the center of the world. But we all know that should never be the case. God should be the one at the center of the world. That's why QT is best done in the morning and not at night, to align our minds with things above, not things below.

It's Good Friday now. I should be in bed. Jerry's going to pick me and Andrew downstairs at 7.30am so we can be in church early for practice. But after the practice session with Andrew on the piano for the opening song "Lead Me To Calvary", we got the whole family singing it now wherever we go. It's a beautiful hymn, and the first time I heard it I was so drawn to the melody and the words. I'll leave it here for all of you to think about it and remember why we have a reason to live today.

Lead Me To Calvary

King of my life, I crown Thee now,
Thine shall the glory be;
Lest I forget Thy thorn-crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.

Lest I forget Gethsemane;
Lest I forget Thine agony;
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary.

Show me the tomb where Thou wast laid,
Tenderly mourned and wept;
Angels in robes of light arrayed
Guarded Thee whilst Thou slept.

Let me like Mary, through the gloom,
Come with a gift to Thee;
Show to me now the empty tomb,
Lead me to Calvary.

May I be willing, Lord, to bear
Daily my cross for Thee;
Even Thy cup of grief to share,
Thou hast borne all for me.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. -Alexander Maclaren