INTO YOUR GLORIOUS DAY

“You called my name, and I ran out of that grave.

Out of the darkness, into your glorious day!”

“Glorious Day”, Passion (2017)

If you’ve been a part of the church for the past decade you’ve heard this song. It’s nothing new. 2017 was almost 10 years ago, but it’s today, Feb. 3, 2024 hearing it sung this morning at church, that it’s hitting me in a curious way. I’ve been a Christian for about 30 years now, but I still struggle with stepping out of the grave into the glorious day. 

I just built a house. I now live on 3 acres in a beautiful home that my sister and I designed surrounded by woods, pasture, and my family. We have what some may call a “family compound.” I prefer “family farm,” but we haven’t really done the farming part yet so non-creepy family compound will do for now. We only have the appropriate amount of barbwire, nothing weird and purple-drink-like going on over here at Rooted Farms. Just felt like it needed to be said. 

ANYWHO!

All that to say, I am blessed beyond measure. I have a good job that abundantly provides and allows me to work from home. And I am literally surrounded by love in the form of family and God’s beautiful creation. I am in community at a church who, at its core, follows God obediently and tangibly. I am without excuse. Some days, though, it’s just so much easier to stay inside, in the darkness (literal and figurative), than get up and walk in glorious light. 

I forget the old was made new. I forget the chains are broken. I forget I am not abandoned but a citizen of Heaven. I forget my brokenness has been healed. I forget His love is the air I breathe.

So instead, I sit inside and breathe the air that may seem safe and comfortable but it isn’t light, or freedom, or glorious. So today I am reminded to step out of the grave and into the glorious day. I want to live in the glorious day, don’t you? I don’t want to live in the grave, in the darkness, the old. No matter how comfortable it may be. I want to choose the harder, but way more beautiful and just as accessible path of freedom and glory with Jesus. I’ve already chosen him…I did 30 years ago...and He’s already chosen me…He did before time began…now I just have to live. Live with the power, freedom, and joy that He is mine, and I am his, and no matter what hard may come nothing can change that. 

Today let’s step into God’s Glorious Day.