Are You Who You Want To Be
You ever have one of those mornings where you look back on everything you once were and realize it’s nothing you are now? Welcome to my Saturday Morning.
I went to Adoration this morning and just felt Him stronger than I have in a while. After spending sometime in silence just looking at Him and listening, I felt like I was supposed to listen to some music. I put on a Reflection Playlist I have on my iPod and a couple of songs came on that really took me to some key moments in my conversion.
The first was King of Glory by Third Day . This is a song that really meant a lot to me in College. It was the first time I heard a song that made me truly think about His glory and His majesty as a King; My King. We used it as the Entrance song for a retreat I did with the youth group I helped with in Tallahassee. I still remember how that song really made me start to comprehend the incomprehensible.
Next was a Switchfoot double-play. Dare You To Move and This Is Your Life. These two songs brought me to a darkened Highway 80 on my way to Clewiston, FL. I was driving for a meeting with the City Council the next morning and was having some good alone time. Those two songs came on like a 1-2 punch to the face. That’s one of the first times I really gave into God calling. I knew there was something else I was supposed to be doing that that who I was was not who I wanted to be.
Welcome to my conversion snapshot. Of course my conversion is much deeper and detailed but sometimes it’s the guideposts that really give us an idea of where we are and where we’ve been.
When you’re head down fighting through all the muck, we don’t have time to necessarily see the big picture. When we have a moment to stop, take a breath and look back at where we’ve been, you can see the bigger moments that God has put in our lives to help us guide through.
Are you head down? or are you at a point God is ready for you to breathe and look back on where you’ve come from?
Think about it. As for me, I’m gonna turn my face back toward the Son and see what might be next.
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April 21st, 2007 at 2:21 pm
The alone time you speak of is awesome, if its God were thinking about. Listening to reflective music really helps the mind and soul
be in the right state to just Praise God, thank Him for families, friends and our faith, His Church.
When I see where I have come from (total darkness) to where I
am now, words can’t describe the journey. Not at all. Yet there is
much to be done. We should grow each day in this earthly journey.
And there are many to help along the way.
Two songs I highly suggest for reflection or just to set the mood are
“A Veiled Cloud” and two Church hymns, “Gift Of Finest Wheat” and “Glory To God in the Highest”.
Its a great thing being able to escape the muck and breathe like you said.
The more time we spend with God the more time He spends with us.
April 26th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Your insight is inspiring and makes me continue to appreciate how you bring me closer to God.