It seems that lately everyone is carrying around a heavy burden. This weight that is pressed on their hearts. Some of them don't even know it, myself included. I woke up in great spirits on Monday. I was determined to change my perspective on life, the cards I had been dealt, and the way I viewed my circumstances. I walked into a fellow teacher's room to wish her good morning and she stopped me before I could say anything. She looked at me and sighed heavy. I asked her what was wrong.
"I don't know, you tell me Gray."
She said she could see this weight in my eyes and she just wanted to take it away.
I am so grateful for that kind of friendship. I am so humbled that I have people that care about me. I feel a pressing need to find ways to lift burdens off of people. I see it there in their eyes. I hear it in their sighs. I feel it in their silence. It is so heavy. So thick with emotions and built up walls. People are slowly closing themselves off like they have a safety valve switch. It's as if the world is not enough of an answer anymore and the end of the rope was miles back. So people decide to wrap up the pressing burden that they carry. They may complain and make it known, but the depth of it that weighs heavy on their hearts is hidden. Masked behind sarcasm, a smile, lies, activities, or ignorance.
We've forgotten the power of God. We know He has power. We understand that He is mighty to save. We pray for deliverance. But we've minimized God's potential. His amazing ability to feed thousands, heal lepers and make the blind see. His promise to come back, to give us peace, to overcome a world filled with trials and sorrows (John 16:33).
"You are not just a person living your life by human power. The Spirit of God is in you; that is why Jesus said it was better for Him to go and the Spirit to come. Don't walk away from this." - Francis Chan "Forgotten God"
How long are we going to walk around as empty vessels? How long are we going to try to reach out to God when His spirit already dwells in us if we believe? How long?
God I pray that you continue to break me. Don't let me be settled in a life, in a world, that is not my home. Help me see past broken technology, mindless meetings and a fallen world. Don't let it consume me until I am so weighted that I can't lift my hands and praise You.
Praise Him under open skies, everything breathing, praising God,
In the company of all who love the King, I will dance, I will sing,
It could be heavenly, turn the music loud, lift my voice and shout,
From where I am, from where I've been, He's been there with me,
He's built a monument. So let His people, His very people, SING SING SING!!!!
- David Crowder Band
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