If We Could Love- Inhabited

Okay, yeah, I know... Another song. (Can you tell I love music?) Anyway, Inhabited is the band, they are fairly new, but totally awesome. This song talks about how we talk and talk and talk but do we ever live out what we talk about. There is so much power and potential in us if we could just spread the love that God has given to us.....

You hold up a sign
You shout out some lines
As she hangs her head down
You talk about love
You sing about grace
But would you take her in
If she chose not to stay
Yeah, we've got to save ourselves
Before we can save somebody else

You cover you guilt
Religion suits you well
But youve got secrets youll never tell
Where's the forgiveness
That we've all known
You point your finger
And throw your stones
Have you forgotten where
We've come from
No man is better than the next one

Oh God, would you move us now
Take away our foolish pride
Would you heal our land
Give us your heart
Oh please dont pass us by

If we could love
We could change the world
Yeah we could shoe them what were talking about
If we could love we could change the world
Yeah wed shoe them, show them
What were all about

Unconditonal, Uncircumstantial Love.....

That's what God has for us. That's what Jesus had and what he lived out every day of his life, in every situation. So hear is my question.... Why do we settle for so much less than that? If we have been forgiven for everything that we have ever done, and for that matter, everything we ever will do, why don't we do the same to everyone else? Seriously... think about it. We have the comfort of knowing that nothing we can ever do will change the fact that God loves us, He always has and He always will.
Look at the life of Jesus. He knew that God loved him so much, and he was filled with that love, but it didnt just stop there, he lived out that love. He lived out an awesome, radical, life-changing love. His overflowing love touched people, and it changed their lives. Granted, Jesus was perfect, and we are not, but we have been given the same love and power that he had. The very spirit of God that was living and working through Jesus, is living in us.
Think about the potential that we have to change the world. What would happen if we just started loving people like crazy, showing an unconditional, uncircumstantial love to everyone around us. Even when it gets tough, when people are being difficult and are hurtful to us or when we have to sacrifice and give up something in order to show that we care. God is showing me the importance of living out a radical, life-changing love, not just talking about how much God loves people and how wonderful His love makes me feel, but living that love out. He is opening my mind to the potential of how many people I can reach and encourage through this concept. What about you? Think about it.....

My Life Is Not My Own....

I have know this for a long time, but it is still sinking in. Or maybe sometimes its just easy to forget.... I heard a guy say one time 'The secret to contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.' So many times i think that we get consumed in living our life and forget that there is so much more out there. I find that when i am focused on my life and what i want it is so easy to complain, to get discouraged and be discouraging to those around me. And days when I am really focused on the fact that I am living with the purpose of bringing glory to God in each and every thing i do, it all just fades away. It no longer matters if I did not get enough sleep last night, or i really dont feel like going to work, or whatever the situation may be.
I am trying to look on life with this view: That every situation, every circumstance has been ordained that way for a reason, the people that I work with, the people that I go to school with, the retarted driver in the lane next to me, the fact that my life intersects for a brief minute with theirs- there is a reason for it. I want to trust God, that he knows what he is doing, cause he can see the whole puzzle put together and all i can see is a few peices at a time. He is not going to put me in a situation for no reason, and if a situation at first seems bad I need to stop myself from complaining or questioning and look for the reason I am in the situation in the first place. But even if I never understand why i was put in that situation, I should still take heart in knowing that God understands, not only does he understand, but he planned it that way, and just knowing that should make it okay.

What would happen if we started looking at every day, every situation, every moment of interaction with another human being as a divine appointment? How would we live our lives differently? Personally, I would watch what I say and how I act, not only externally, but in my mind as well. I would try to be aware that there is a much bigger picture out there, that i am only one peice in an enourmously large puzzle and just because it does not make sense to me at the current moment, does not mean that it is pointless. That is what I would do... that is what i WILL do. How about you??......

Let Go- by the Barlow Girls

Let Go- okay, yeah i know another song... but Barlow Girl is just that cool so deal with it! So this song is about how we need to jsut trust God and go on what he tells us, we need to let go of all our worries about what will happen and what people will think and just do it, cause he has our best interests at heart...

Yeah, I trust in You
I remember times you led me
This time its bigger now
and I'm afraid you'll let me down

But how can I be certain?
Will you prove yourslef again?

What is this doubt in me?
Convincing me to fear the unknown
When all along youve shown
Your plans are better than my own

And I know I wont make it
If I do this on my own

'Cause I'm about to let go
and live what i believe
I cant do a thing now
But trust that you'll catch me
When I let go

Grey- by the Barlow Girls

GREY-
okay so this song is about how it is so easy to be lukewarm- netiher hot nor cold, to play both sides of the fence, to bury our convictions and just try to make everyone happy. But the truth is that we need to stand on what we believe in and ask God to help us make an impact for Him.

Grey's my favorite color
Black and white has never been my thing
I take my drink likewarm now
Hot and Cold is not the thing for me

I dont want to impose
Who really needs to know what I believe
cause no one likes rockin' boats
And who would care to see the way I see

Absolutes are hidden
Ive burried my convictions

I cannot be blind no more
Numb to what Im living for
Help me stop this compromise
That justifies these lies
I need your Passion in this life