Head on over to http://ericfrisch04.mindsay.com/embracing_accusations.mws  and listen to this song by Shane and Shane, the lyrics of which I’ve posted below.  It’s such a great reminder of God’s grace and of our inability, on our own, to know Him and to abide in Him.  Jesus must help us.  He must save us.  We cannot do that by ourselves, no matter how hard we try.

            It’s true that “cursed are the ones who can’t abide.”  Without Jesus, we are in extremely deep weeds.  But Jesus became a curse for us and has taken away the curse.  Yes.  Hallelujah.
 

The father of lies, coming to steal kill and destroy
All my hopes of being good enough.
I hear him saying, “cursed are the ones who can’t abide.”

He’s right, hallelujah, he’s right.

The devil is preaching the song of the redeemed,
That I am cursed and gone astray.
I cannot gain salvation
Embracing accusation.

Could the father of lies be telling the truth of
God to me tonight?
That if the penalty of sin is death, then death is mine.
I hear him saying, “cursed are the ones who can’t abide.”

He’s right, hallelujah, he’s right.

The devil is preaching the song of the redeemed,
That I am cursed and gone astray.
I cannot gain salvation
Embracing accusation.

The devil’s singing over me an age old song
That I am cursed and gone astray.
Singing the first verse so conveniently over me,
He’s forgotten the refrain...
Jesus saves!