Remedy

I read this article in Atlanta Magazine about a woman who is a former strip club dancer who is now a Christian and has this amazing minstry where she and other former exotic dancers go into strip clubs and hand out goody baskets to the girls who work there. They also hold worship services in the middle of a questionable area of Atlanta which is evidently right near one of said clubs. So far, they have helped something like 125 girls get out of this lifestyle. I thought that was pretty life-changing.

Then, tonight at the Romania Partnership night, Pastor Gelu told this story of a time before Vox Domini Church was established when he and an American friend were out evangelising on the streets of Timisoara. He felt very uncomfortable doing that, and they are were getting ready to go home when his friend said, "Let's just go get that guy on the bike." So they chased down this man who was riding a bike and when they finally caught him and told him about Jesus right there, he responded by saying, "I've been waiting all my life for someone to tell me this."

It's been a really tough weekend, but God is still God and I am so blessed because of Jesus. This song by David Crowder Band just reminds me of who I am---who we are as Christians---and what a big world there is out there, just waiting for someone to tell them there's another way.

REMEDY, by David Crowder Band

Here we are, Here we are
The broken and used, Mistreated, abused
Here we are

Here You are, Here You are
The beautiful one, Who came like a Son
Here You are

So we lift up our voices, We open our hands
To cling to the love, That we can't comprehend

Oh, lift up your voices, And lift up your heads
To sing of the love, That has freed us from sin

CHORUS
He is the one, Who has saved us
He is the one, Who embraced us
He is the one who has come, And is coming again
He's the remedy

Here we are, Here we are
Bandaged and bruised
Awaiting a cure, Here we are

Here You are, Here You are
Our beautiful King, Bringing relief
Here You are with us

So we lift up our voices, And open our hands
Let go of the things, That have kept us from Him

[Chorus]

Oh, I can't comprehend, I can't take it all in
Never understand, Such perfect love come
For the broken and beat, For the wounded and weak
Oh, come fall at His feet
He's the remedy, He's the remedy

So sing, sing

You are the one, Who has saved us
You are the one, Who forgave us
You are the one who has come, And is coming again
To make it alright, Oh, to make it alright
You're the remedy, Oh, in us
You're the remedy

Let us be the remedy
Let us bring the remedy

I love that last bit..."Let US be the remedy..." That is what we are called to be to a dying world, isn't it?