Jeremy Camp, a Christian songwriter, had only been married for a few months when his wife, Melissa, was diagnosed with cancer. She had come home from the hospital and asked him to get his guitar so that they could sing and worship. The song she wanted him to play was, “For You Are Good.” Even in the midst of her dying, Melissa knew that God alone deserved the praise that her heart could offer. Weeks after Melissa’s death, Jeremy wrote a song entitled, “I Still Believe”: 

Scattered words and empty thoughts 

Seem to pour from my heart. 

I’ve never felt so torn before, 

Seems I don’t know where to start. 

But it’s now that I feel your grace 

fall like rain From every fingertip, 

washing away my pain. 

I still believe in your faithfulness. 

I still believe in your truth. 

I still believe in your Holy Word, 

Even when I don’t see, I still believe. 

Though the questions still fog up my mind 

With promises, I still seem to bear, 

Even when answers slowly unwind, 

It’s my heart I see you prepare. 

But it’s now that I feel your grace 

fall like rain From every fingertip, 

washing away my pain. 

I still believe in your faithfulness. 

I still believe in your truth. 

I still believe in your Holy Word, 

Even when I don’t see, I still believe. 

The only place I can go is into your arms, 

Where I throw to you my feeble prayers. 

In brokenness I can see that this was your will for me. 

Help me to know you are near. 

I still believe in your faithfulness. 

I still believe in your truth. 
 

I still believe in your Holy Word, 

Even when I don’t see, I still believe.
 

Even in the midst of pain or in days when we are confused and torn, the Cross assures us of God’s love, and the empty Tomb proclaims His victory. I love the words from Romans 8: 

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that has loved us” (v. 37). 

No matter what Satan throws at us, no matter how unfairly the world treats us, we are more than conquerors. We do not merely win out over evil because Christ—He even takes every wound, every hurt, every failure, and weaves them into the fabric of our life’s story. More than conquerors. 

Today is the day. “This is the day which the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Christ is ready to reveal Himself as the Victor.
 

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Helping people live life with Jesus everyday,

Rev. Dr. Brent L Parrish