You Will Rise Up In The End

This weekend was really hard for me. I broke three commitments that I told myself I must abide by: I binged, I read a fitness magazine (which has become like pornography to me), and I ran on Saturday morning before reading the Word (I never ended up reading the Word that day). I felt consumed by guilt and self-condemnation because I wasn't measuring up, not even closely

I have to remind myself of the Gospel, and be reminded by others: Christ is our perfect substitute. It is by His righteousness that we will enter the kingdom. It is His hold on me that will never be broken. It is His grace that sustains me every day. In Christ, there is no judgment for me, no wrath. All God's wrath was spent on Christ. There is none left for me. But His mercies are new every morning, great is His faithfulness.

A dear friend sent this song to me today, and I found it super encouraging:

You Will Rise Up in the End

“Every stone that makes you stumble
and cuts you when you fall
Every serpent here that strikes your heel
to curse you when you crawl
The king of love one day will crush them all

And every sad seduction and every clever lie
Every word that woos and wounds the pilgrim children of the sky
The king of love will break them by and by

And you will rise up in the end
You will rise up in the end
I know the night is cruel
but the day is coming soon
And you will rise up in the end

If the thief had to come to plunder when the children were alone
If he ravaged every daughter and murdered every son
Would not their father see this? Would not his anger burn?
And would he not repay the tyrant in the day of his return?
Oh, wait. Oh, wait the day of his return

Cause he will rise up in the end
He will rise up in the end
I know you need a Savior
He is patient in his anger
And he will rise up in the end

And when the stars come crashing to the sea
and the high and mighty fall down on their knees
When you see the Son descending in the sky
the chains of death will fall around your feet

You will rise up in the end
you will rise up in the end”

—Ben Shive, “Rise Up”, *The Ill-Tempered