How Mighty is He?

September 26 2011, 3:33 pm | Jessica Bollen

Savior, He can move the mountains.  Our God is mighty to save, He is mighty to save...

My spirit always responds to this song. It never, ever fails. You know how some songs that you’ve heard a thousand times will come on the radio and simply make fantastic background music to our lives? This isn’t one of them for me... It always moves me.

Usually, these words stir the part of my heart that’s broken for what seems to be the darkest corners of this world.  The girl, drugged and beaten, enslaved in a human trafficking ring? Our God is mighty to save her! The orphan baby who doesn’t even cry anymore because he knows no one will respond? Our God is mighty to save him! My heart cries, praise Him!! Thank you Lord for being bigger than this world!!  Thank you for being our warrior God, our Hero, our Savior!

However, when the worship team led us to sing this last Sunday, it wasn’t the sex slaves or the orphans that were heavy on my mind.  It was the severely broken marriages of people we love dearly.  It was the students we feel slipping further and further into lives of darkness.  It was the absolutely terrifying thought that my baby girl will only be “safe” in my womb for 4 more months, and then she’ll have to live in this sin-wrecked world with the rest of us deranged people– and I won’t be able to protect her, and neither will Daniel.  

For whatever reason, in that moment, it was a bit more difficult for my heart to believe He is mighty to save.  Thankfully, in that moment, the Lord showed me that I was missing the whole second half of this beautiful chorus, which is now, to me, the most encouraging part.

Yes, He is mighty to save, and it’s because,

Forever, the Author of Salvation,  He rose and conquered the grave. Jesus conquered the grave!

What happened on the cross – Jesus’ sacrifice – is incomprehensible. It’s beautiful, awe-inspiring, incredibly humbling, and worthy of our constant praise and adoration. But in realizing how I’ve carelessly overlooked the second half of this chorus, the Lord showed me that I’ve carelessly overlooked the power in the rest of Christ’s story, the Gospel – Christ’s Resurrection.  Suddenly, this song filled me with encouragement like never before.

He conquered the grave.

He actually conquered physical death. I don't dwell in this fact nearly enough.  Just think about it…. Christ was stone cold dead for 3 days. Three days!  Then, He literally got up and walked out of the tomb, as if he had never been brutally beaten and murdered.  He wasn’t a zombie. He wasn’t a ghost or a vision. He was JESUS. Just as whole and beautiful as he ever was (and still is).  

In that moment, the Holy Spirit reminded me - yes, I am mighty to save. And when my heart had the nerve to ask, yeah, but how do I know that???  He sweetly reminded me that, if He can save His Son from actual, physical death – the point of no return for this world – he can save anything!

Then, I knew… I knew what else he can save.

 

Marriages.

Students.

Homes.

Churches.

Nations.

And yes, my baby girl.

 

And the list goes on and on.  Now, I’m rejoicing in the fact that God doesn’t just rescue. He resurrects.  What was once lifeless, He has the power to make as whole and beautiful as it ever was.  Praise Him!

The bottom line?  There may be something in your life that seems stone cold dead. Dear sister, please remember – so did Jesus. He is mighty to save.

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

 

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