----REVIVAL'S IN THE AIR~~

----"But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on Him."-[ISAIAH 53:5] -

--ONE Saturday morning, my husband Whitney breezed into the kitchen, holding out a hymnal. "I forget how this song goes, and in an hour I'm supposed to lead it at the men's Bible study. Will you sing it with me? he asked looking at his watch.

I frowned. I'd rather eat that hymnal than sing right now is what I wanted to say. Last night I'd relived a wrong done to me a few years earlier. I'd stumbled out of bed dragging resentment like a ball-and-chain. But Whitney didn't seem to notice my pain. And of all the songs.....

"Please...if you just get me started I know I'll remember the tune," Whitney said.

"Okay," I mumbled. He sat next to me, and I led in a cracked, unhappy voice.

Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand,
The shadow of a mighty Rock within a weary land.

The powerful old hymn pulled at my resentment. I pulled back. But I was wronged.

"I got it," Whitney said, launching into the last verse:
Upon that cross of Jesus mine eyes at times can see
The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me.

Those words I'd sung all my life drew across my resentment the picture of Jesus hanging on the Cross, looking at me with redeeming love. I began to cry.

"Is something wrong?" Whitney asked, closing the hymnal. My tears turned to laughter. In his obtuseness, my wonderful husband had inadvertently led me to the one place of peace. Surrender at the foot of the Cross. I bowed my head and prayed"

--"Lord Jesus, Lamb of God, have mercy on me."

--Daily Guideposts/SS~
--"Revival's In The Air"//Melissa Helser=<https://youtu.be/7UVE34YG2yM>
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