There Was Jesus

It was Jesus.  I was overwhelmed with this song.  I confess as I have so many times to all those that witnessed and lived with me in it.  I was a wretch.  I had burned up the Word, burned up my salvation, burned it all up in pain, and the highway.  But there was no excuse—I was a wretch.  I am sorry.  I knew the truth.  I knew it all along and to all those that I ran with, all those years I was next to you, by you, with you, I knew the truth but I burned it up.  And then came Jesus.  And then came Jesus.  Every now and then you are taken back, your mind drags your heart into the dump of your past and you ache and long to say to all those in your past, I Am Sorry—but you can’t!  But you are!  And then a sweet song, a most beloved lover, nudges you to the grace of forgetting the past, striving for the prize, holding on, moving on, on knees and rendered heart and your wife, your beloved lover casually whispers, “I heard a song.  You should listen to it.”  And in the silence of your noise your turn it on, and it carries you away once again and “There was Jesus” where he has always been, lo these 62 years, and he reminds me, “your sins have been forgiven”.  Thank You!  Amen