Friday, May 21, 2010

Lay Your Deadly Doing Down

I'm not sure where these words are from originally, but again and again I've heard Tim Keller impress them upon his congregation:

"Lay your deadly doing down,
Down at Jesus feet,
Stand in him and him alone,
Gloriously complete."

Believers, Christians, not just unbelievers, need to hear this sort of thing again and again, for deadly doing so easily crops up again and again.  And since it so frequently finds a place at the core of our identity, we refuse to lay it all down at Jesus' feet.  But he lived the life we should have lived, and died the death we should have died, so we can stand and rest in him--gloriously complete before the Father.  Without our doings. 

So lay it down, brothers and sisters.  Lay it down.  All of it.  At Jesus' feet.

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