This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
Blessed Assurance 1873
By: Fanny Crosby (1820-1915)
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As we begin our journey through this well-beloved hymn rest in the assurance being in Christ provides to you. This is our story and song, praising Jesus all the day long. Let’s tune our hearts.
What’s Your Story?
Normally you ask someone this question when you are trying to get to know them. Sometimes you might ask it when you are trying to understand a particular response to a situation. But here I want you to think about your own answer to the question in terms of what it reveals is important to you.
We tend to spend our time and energy on things we value. Antique cars. Reading. Meal planning.
The things that we spend our time and energy doing become key components to the story of our lives. As those things change with different seasons we live the different chapters of our lives, but some things remain constant. What are the constants in your life?
For a Christian, Jesus should be one of those constants. Actually, He should be the one that towers over all the others. Is that true of your life?
This is my story this is my song
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 1 John 5:11 ESV
Before we find the assurance of eternal life in Jesus, we are each living a very different story. When we find rest in what He has accomplished for us our story changes dramatically as we begin to testify or tell the world the story of Jesus with our lives.
What’s your story? Our stories are so important. They let others now what has shaped us and give insight into what is important to us. If someone were to research your life would they discover Jesus as an integral part of it? Determine now to make it so from this day forth.
RESONATE!
Take a few moments and ask God to reveal to you what is important to you. Is Jesus the main character in your story, or does He play a lessor role? Make this your simple prayer today “God, make my story all about Jesus.” Then trust Jesus to help you live it.
How will you praise?
He is worthy of all praise. Will you commit to offering it to Him? If so, how will you do that?
You can give Him praise when you tell your story. When someone asks how your day is going you can give Him praise. When someone asks what you are doing you can point back to Him. When someone asks “What is your story?” you can point them to Jesus.
Praising my Savior all the day long
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. Psalm 147:1 ESV
One of the ways we testify is by giving praise to God. Sometimes we speak that praise and other times we sing it, but most importantly it becomes our way of life. Is praising your Savior something you do regularly, or occasionally? Commit to doing it more every day.
When you stop and think about what Jesus has done the most appropriate response is to give Him praise for His saving work. If He is your Savior, if you are trusting only in His finished work on the cross to make you right with Father God, then praising Him should come very easy.
RESONATE!
Take a few moments and consider how you will praise Jesus today. If you share any of your story, make certain He is a part of it. Pray a simple prayer like this one, “Jesus, help me praise You for Your saving work.” Then trust the Spirit to help you practice that every day.
Jesus, thank You for writing the story of my life. Help me to tell others about You every time I tell any part of it. You are the best part of my story. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
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Video 31.4 Transcript
Welcome to Tuesday Tunings at Resonant 7, where we reflect on the reality of God and resolve to let it resound in our lives, repeatedly. Let’s tune our hearts.
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
What’s your story? Our stories are so important. They let others now what has shaped us and give insight into what is important to us. If someone were to research your life would they discover Jesus as an integral part of it? Determine now to make it so from this day forth.
God, make my story all about Jesus.
When you stop and think about what Jesus has done the most appropriate response is to give Him praise for His saving work. If He is your Savior, if you are trusting only in His finished work on the cross to make you right with Father God, then praising Him should come very easy.
Jesus, help me praise You for Your saving work.
Not only my story but also my song. We can choose to sing many different ones but we must sing Jesus and our assurance in Him first and foremost. One song says, “Worthy of every song we could ever sing.” I could not have said, or sung it any better. He alone is worthy of all praise.
Spirit, help me sing of Jesus.
All the day long? Really? Really. We must never grow weary of declaring our praise to and of Jesus. Whether horizontal, to other humans, or vertical, to God alone, His praise must remain on our lips as long as we have breath. Commit today to praise Him all the days of your life.
Lord, I commit to praise you all my days.
Take a few moments to talk to Jesus about what has surfaced in your heart, or just listen to what He is saying to you, then we will sing once more.
Sing
Take the awareness of God’s presence cultivated in these last few minutes into the next ones and beyond. Until next time,
Be Resonant.
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