I didn’t know my Papa Jim very well. Really at all, if we are being honest. The stories I have heard from my parents are my only memories. But I do know that his favorite song was Amazing Grace and I think of him every time I sing it.
A few of the lyrics to Amazing Grace are:
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I am found, was blind but now I see.”
The song is old and but it’s an absolute classic. Everyone has pretty much heard it and the lyrics are incredibly profound, even today.
It speaks about the grace and undeserved kindness that God has freely given to us through His son dying on the cross for all the things we have done wrong.
It also talks about how we were once lost and now we are found. My friend said it perfectly when she was describing the lyrics. She said, “Since we were lost and then found, we first had to belong somewhere.”
And the truth is that we have always belonged to God, the King of Kings.
Do you believe that? Because I do.
But too often, we forget we belong anywhere and we spend our entire lives trying to belong to something else. We try and belong to people or at a university or at a job. We search and long and chase and honestly, we always come up just a smidge short because it never feels like enough.
Our sense of belonging can only be fulfilled by the person that created us to belong, our Creator. Our original purpose was to be sons and daughters of God.
God’s deepest desire is for His children to come back to Him. If you look at the Bible, that is what it is talking about pretty much the whole time.
We belong to Him and we always have and we always will. And because we belong to Him, he is constantly pursing us and loving us.
So it’s just up to us whether or not we abandon Him or we say yes, and believe Him.
I never got the chance to sit down and talk about Jesus with my grandpa, but from what I can gather from his favorite song, is that my Grandpa saw his sin, but he saw his Savior more, and that’s cool because that’s what I see too.
Take a listen to the song Amazing Grace, and know that I’m listening to it in Khon Kaen, Thailand as well!
