ten thousand

alright, i just sent an email to a very beloved friend about this song - but i really wanted to write about it too.

there is this song by john mark mcmillan called 'ten thousand'. it is definitely in my top two favorites from his new album. i love this song. 

i always want to cry when i hear the chorus - which talks about how this girl is overcoming her pain - not by her own abilities, but by the blood of God's son.

over the past seven months - i have felt absolutely defeated. there has been so many things, so many people, that i have felt utterly destroyed by - and yet, i feel like just recently, i've started to pick up the pieces, and overcome. not overcome on my own, but overcome with the power of Jesus.

it's times like these - when i come to amazing points of realization - at the enormity of a creator of the universe, who is also a God that loves me, and would like to penetrate the depths of my hurting heart - that i begin to fall even more in love with him. 

i love this description of Jesus, found in isaiah and again in matthew:

'here is my servant whom i have chosen, the one i love, in whom i delight; i will put my spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations. he will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets. a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads the justice to victory. in his name the nations will put their hope.'

and this is the son that helps us overcome. overcome the smallness of our thinking. overcome the inability to forgive. the pain that seems to flood at the most inconvenient times. or the enemies we didn't know we made.

world, i've overcome you.