- Octavio Cesar Martinez
Do You Really Believe in Jesus?
Do You Really Believe in Jesus?
Well, who else did you have in mind?
Today, I turned 60.
For 45 of those years, I have tried to practice the teachings of Jesus.
And imitate His lifestyle.
Some years were better than others.
Some years — well let's say I didn't try enough.
Yesterday, Sunday morning, I was writing a talk on 2 Chronicles 31–36.
While I wrote, I listened to some of my favorite hymns:
Be Thou My Vision,
Con Que Pagaremos,
Pass Me Not,
I Will Praise Him, Still, and a few others.
Hymns speak to me at different levels, but my favorites always speak to me at some level.
But yesterday morning,
October 8th,
the day before I turned 60,
the last stanza of O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, is what spoke to me the most.
Here it is.
Enjoy.
What language shall I borrow
To thank Thee, dearest friend,
For this Thy dying sorrow,
Thy pity without end?
O make me Thine forever,
And should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never
Outlive my love for Thee.