I Can Recount. . .

I should be sleeping. But, I'm up, trying to type out an assignment for the first course of my Master's degree. I'm also listening to a song called Radiant by E-Pop (I have it on repeat). 

My assignment is to write a two to three page paper on God's call on my life. I have to think back, which is something I've been doing a lot lately. This is refreshing, and as I'm writing this a Psalm comes to mind:

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart;

I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

I will be glad and exult in you;

I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. (Psalm 9:1-2)

And then a verse from Isaiah:

I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD,

the praises of the LORD,

according to all that the LORD has granted us,

and the great goodness to the house of Israel

that he has granted us them according to his compassion,

according to the abundance of his steadfast love. (Is 63:7)

God's grace has been sown in exceeding abundance towards me! For those of you reading this, let me make something vividly clear: I am a great sinner! I can recount the days when I wanted nothing to do with His Cross, His Word or His Church. I can recount the hardness of my heart and that it's only goal was to glorify it's own desires, namely, me. I was pitiful.

But God, being rich in mercy, looked on me with pity and redeemed me. By His grace, I looked to Him and He heard me. I can recount the night I saw my wickedness while driving down 11th street and back to my dormitory. I can recount the day that the light of the Gospel was shed abroad in my heart and I-COULD-SEE!!!! I can recount His steadfast love towards me, an undeserving sinner who had been running from Christ. He brought me in, into His flock! I can see, I can see, I can see! 

It is confounding (Ezekiel 16:62-63) to recount the steadfast love of the LORD.