God Of This City by Chris Tomlin....
You're the God of this city
You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of this nation
You Are
For there is no one like our God
There is no one like our God
Greater things have yet to come
Great things are still to be done
In this city
Greater things are still to come
And greater things are still to be done here
You're the Lord of Creation
The Creator of all things
You're the King above all Kings
You Are
You're the strength in our weakness
You're the love to the broken
You're the joy in the sadness
You Are
Greater things have yet to come
Great things are still to be done
In this city
Where glory shines from hearts alive
With praise for you and love for you
In this city
Greater things have yet to come
Great things are still to be done
In this city
Greater things are still to come
And greater things are still to be done here
We have been singing this song a lot at our church lately and I LOVE it..soooo...Sometimes i can be kinda slow to get things...yes, i can admit to this...but i was driving the girls to school and a light bulb went off while i was listening/singing this song...i love how he says you are the strength in our weakness, love to the broken and joy in the sadness...God DOES work in us when we are broken..that is how He keeps us close but for some reason I have not been able to wrap my mind around that lately...like i am not suppose to be broke...i am suppose to "have it all together" ...last week i had a "low" week...ya know one of those weeks when you pray but feel empty/alone/isolated...i kept searching all week for "other" things to find joy in but i was never fulfilled...i knew what to do...i knew He was there, but did not think i had the time/energy or even my worth to reach...on Tuesday i took the girls to school, came home (missed work/tutoring) and literally laid my head IN the bible...i guess in some wierd way i was praying that some wisdom would just soak in my head...a good/wise friend of mine told me to write everything down that i was feeling and just say it...i did, and wow was it amazing...some of it did not make sense, but I KNEW that it DID make since to God...i felt the most amazing peace and weight lifted off of me...so God does use those times when we are weak/broken/vulnerable to grow/strengthen us...being broken is what we are until we reunite w/ HIM...yet what the "world" tells us is to constantly "chase" something...do better...
in Ecclesiastes 2: 11 it says
"Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun."
so this has been my motto since this weekend...is to question/think/be conscience of what is for HIM verses what is just chasing after the wind.....