Cause He who is in meIs greater than I will ever beAnd I will rise
Of late, I've been thinking a lot about my own inadequacies and weaknesses. I'm sure that you, like me, are troubled and discouraged by your own. I've been learning, lately, though, that if I just throw up my hands when I falter, I will go nowhere.
This song ("Rise by Shawn McDonald") popped up on my Valentine's Day playlist, and as I've been listening to it over and over again, I've been contemplating what exactly it means to "rise". Can I ever really rise on my own? I don't think so. But the words of this song: "he who is in me is greater than I will ever be" have struck me deeply.
If I strive to make Christ "he who is in me," I will rise each time I fall.
Sometimes my heart is on the groundAnd hope is nowhere to be foundLove is a figment I once knewAnd yet I hold on to what I know is trueAnd yes I hold on, I hold onto You
Well I keep on coming to this placeThat I don't know quite how to faceSo I lay down my life in hopes to dieThat somehow I might rise
I have a quote on my wall by Bruce R McConkie. It reads as follows:
"We don't need to get a complex...that you have to be perfect to be saved. You don't. There's only been one perfect person, and that's the Lord Jesus, but in order to be saved in the Kingdom of God and in order to pass the test of mortality, what you have to do is get on the straight and narrow path - thus charting a course leading to eternal life - and then, being on that path, pass out of this life in full fellowship. I'm not saying that you don't have to keep the commandments. I'm saying you don't have to be perfect to be saved. If you did, no one would be saved...Now is the time and the day of your salvation, so if you're working zealously in this life - though you haven't fully overcome the world and you haven't done all you hoped you might do - you're still going to be saved."
It is in these moments that my heart so yearns to be good and worthy of saving, yet I remain so painfully aware of my own imperfections. It is in these moments that my heart is reassured. I can still have those righteous things that I desperately want. I can still move forward as long as I keep fighting, as long as Christ is "he who is in me," I will continue to rise.
Yes I will riseOut of these ashes riseFrom this trouble I have foundAnd this rubble on the groundI will rise
Cause He who is in meIs greater than I will ever beAnd I will rise
