Originally written Spring 2008
Recently, I've rediscovered some older songs and albums to which I never paid too much attention before - Jars of Clay The Eleventh Hour, and Paul Simon's Boy in the Bubble and Wartime Prayers. Wartime Prayers has a catchy chorus:
Because you cannot walk with the holy / if you're just a halfway decent man /But I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind / with a genius marketing plan / I'm trying to tap into some wisdom / even a little drop will do / I want to rid my heart of envy / and clean my soul of rage before I'm through
And it's really just the first lines that I latched onto. God calls us to be all-in or else it's meaningless. There's the oft-cited Luke 10:27, Matthew 22:37, and Mark 12:30. All. All. All. Not halfway. And beyond loving God completely, I struggle to give completely in serving Him. I feel like I spent about a year living half in the past, half in the future, and not at all in the present. I've come out of that, somewhat, and while one could easily construe that as wasting that year, I needed that year. It's still being put into context, but I can sense the reason for it. These are truly days of miracle and wonder.
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