Last night's Burning Ones service was flippin off the chart. I just want to put it out there. Maybe I'll write another post going into more detail later on, I just wanted to share this small thing.
Pretty much throughout most of the service after worship, I kept singing this song I learned at camp when I was in elementary school, just this one refrain, because I didn't remember the rest: the words are-
I am Yours, Lord
Everything I am
Everything I'm not
Everything I've got
I am Yours, Lord
Try me now and see
See if I can be
Completely Yours, Lord.
Coll song huh? I love it and was humming it all night. Well, I had a moment where God said, "that'll work." I was reading this morning in II Samuel 22, where David praises God for deliverance. I am reading and just getting some good stuff! Then I come to this verse, and it was the rest of the words to the camp song I had been humming all night. I read the words and recognized them instantly. It's from II Samuel 22:47, and whole song is -
I will magnify the Lord
Who is worthy to be praised
I will magnify the Lord
Who is worthy to be praised
Hosanna!
Blessed be the Rock
Blessed be the God of my salvation
Hosanna!
Blessed be the Rock
Blessed be the God of my salvation
I am Yours Lord
Everything I am
Everything I'm not and Everything I've got
I am Yours, Lord
Try me now and see
See if I can be completely Yours, Lord.
Hmm... I think I like the way my Jehova Sneaky plays....
15 November 2008
12 November 2008
a world that cannot be shaken
This is thoughts from one of my devotionals from class...
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee" (Isaiah 26:3)
I was talking to a customer today, and he was discouraged and feeling despair- I could almost physically feel the hopelessness washing out from him. He was caught up in the financial unstability, and even though he was glad that Obama was elected, this man didn't see how things could be fixed. He said it was a scary time and scary place. I told him it could be, if I was focused on this place, but I know of a world that cannot be shaken, so what's happening now doesn't really frighten me. We had an interesting discussion - he was intrigued, but I don't believed he was convinced - but that scripture made me think of that conversation. Even when the world around us has crumbled, God will keep us in perfect peace if we train our mind on Him and trust Him.
I honestly didn't think about that before, but I realize that now. God is bigger than any situation I can come up against, so what's the sense in losing my peace? If I can keep my mind focused on Him, I can ride the waves of a rocky economy or a trying school day with grace and the authority of the love of God. It's surreal, but si true. God gives me peace in the middle of a storm, a peace that passes all rational understanding.
He is so amazing.
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee" (Isaiah 26:3)
I was talking to a customer today, and he was discouraged and feeling despair- I could almost physically feel the hopelessness washing out from him. He was caught up in the financial unstability, and even though he was glad that Obama was elected, this man didn't see how things could be fixed. He said it was a scary time and scary place. I told him it could be, if I was focused on this place, but I know of a world that cannot be shaken, so what's happening now doesn't really frighten me. We had an interesting discussion - he was intrigued, but I don't believed he was convinced - but that scripture made me think of that conversation. Even when the world around us has crumbled, God will keep us in perfect peace if we train our mind on Him and trust Him.
I honestly didn't think about that before, but I realize that now. God is bigger than any situation I can come up against, so what's the sense in losing my peace? If I can keep my mind focused on Him, I can ride the waves of a rocky economy or a trying school day with grace and the authority of the love of God. It's surreal, but si true. God gives me peace in the middle of a storm, a peace that passes all rational understanding.
He is so amazing.
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