“cause in the place where u are,
there’s a fountain a flowing,
stream of life
and a street of gold.
I want to be there,
till the end of time”
The words of this song one of my friends wrote last time still give me the chills everytime i sing those lines. It just makes me want to be in heaven so much. Sometimes i even think, what if it all aint enough? But, i know the good Lord will guide me and carry me thru amidst all my problems.
“there is no problem too big, God cannot solve it”
life abundant.
cliche?
well, sometimes in life, we tend to forego or forget those little bits of happiness. Everything seem to be clouded by work, stress, relationships, people etc. Have we ever stepped back, took a breath and say, “hey God, tell me why?”
i did that. in thailand.
Let me assure you. It works. Its as simple as when you step back, you are able to see and appreciate the BIGGER picture. God has His reasons for everything. believe me. everything. He lets everything happen for a reason. You have to let Himtake it all, take control, steer the wheel of your life. It is only then, you realize how inadequate you are. our greatest intelligence is like a dirt and cant be even compared to God’s foolishness.
SO, i let Him control my life since then, and yes, everything is back to where i want them to be (:
I just went out with bee on tues, eudora on wed and ca/pearle on thurs and everyday, i learn something new. people around me just add these little bits of knowledge and happiness into my life. Was talking to bee and eudora about worship and God’s purpose. Talking to ca/pearle about relationships etc. Sometimes unknowingly to us, we tend to just let these bits enter in one ear and evaporate from the other. Anyhow, I cant stop sharing about what is worship to me.
WORSHIP.
whenever i talk about that, the excitment just igniting within. I was happy to learn that bee saw worship/lyrics in a different light now and that if a picture paints a thousand words, worship paints a million pictures.worship to epitome of a love song. what do you associate love with? pleasing, sweet, aromatic, emotions, colours, smiles and many other nice sounding words.
Place them all together and you realize why worship=the pleasing aroma in God’s presence. Worship,more often than not is a declaration of our faith and a love song unto him. Lyrics play a major role in the song and very often we only care about the melody, how nice it sounds etc. We forget the confession we make when we declare the lyrics.
Like what i was sharing with bee and eudora. the song “from the inside out”. This song has a special place in my heart because of the words and how much power they have.
If you can recall the line “the art of losing myself -in bringing you praise”
WHAT is an art? something you appreciate, something that is beautiful, takes up precious time to learn and something that has to be mastered (i.e the art of kungfu etc). The fact that we have to keep dying to ourselves, mastering the way to lose ourselves, makes this line so much more meaningful and i love that it is an ART. we have to sacrifice our lives, losing ourself, stripped down to the bear minimum, just to bring Him praise. ultimate. inspiring (:
another line “Your will above ALL else, my purpose remains” and “A thousand times i fail, still Your mercy remains”
These two lines speak differently about our relationship with God, but both, equally important confessions.
the former emphasizes on us wanting nothing but His will in our lives to be done. It is a confession of our desire. while the latter is a confession of our faith.
faith and desire.
different but equally important.
Starting with the first line. It is a declaration of our believe and desire. it says, YOUR WILL ABOVE ALL ELSE, we often pray “may Your will be done..” what does that mean?
It means letting God take control of our situations, be it when we are happy or when we a down. “ABOVE ALL ELSE”, sometimes our lives gets clouded by so many problems that we forget Him. As much as we want what we want in our lives, we have to let Him steer us. What does purpose mean? PURPOSE defines to innert believe we hold dear to, in my opinion. people usually ask, “what is our sole purpose in life?” they are questioning our innert believes. so in that line alone, we learn so much, letting His perfect will be done in our lives and really giving all our worries to Him and practically smiling at the storm (something alot of us cannot do) becomes something we cling so dear to, a purpose. Its like this line from the show “FACING THE GIANTS”-if we win, we PRAISE Him – even if we lose, we PRAISE HiM Praise Him in all your situation, you will find that life is abundant.
The next line “a Thousand times i fail, still Your mercy remains”. Failure can sometimes tear a person down, or on the flip side of the coin, build a person up. This act of faith in the above line shows that, though i may fail and yes, it is sad. YOUR LOVE AND MERCY remains. Praising Him and thanking Him even in the storm. that is the beauty of that line and the beauty is that it is the first line of the song. From the vry beginning, it is humbling to just commit to God our inadequacies and having the faith to say ” Your mercy remains,no matter what”.
Instead of blaming Him, “God, why? Why?” we start the song, admitting how inadequate we are (: AWW its the beauty of the song! I can go on and on but i hope people get the point. Worship is so beautiful, though the melody is rather important, the words are the main stars (:
a life revolve around worship and His principles…
… ain’t it life abundance?
