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Why? You only have today.
I love the Relient K song, “For the moments I feel Faint.”
I love the simplicity in the lyrics and the honesty and loyalty the melody sings.
But more than that, I love the faith that is thrown into listeners ears.
“I think I can’t,
I think I can’t
But I think You can
I think You can.”
“Gather my insufficiencies and place them in Your hand, I place them in Your hand.”
WHOOP.
A hammer swinging
clang
clang
the cadence of the clanging
hitting a nail
clang
clang
clang
and now flesh interrupts it’s
doush!
dou…
the melody of the nails harmonizes with the cries of men.
And the cry of the Son of Man.
Now the rhythm of His grace beats in my heart.
It makes me sing at the top of my lungs in my car with the windows rolled down. The wind joins me in my song to the King. We belt it out together, flying down highway breathing just to sing His praise.
The rhythm of His grace beating in my heart speeds up as I run this race. Faster and faster, both my heart and my legs as I run with My King, training my body, beating it to serve Him better.
The rhythm of His grace pounds in my heart, like the waves of the ocean. The waves crash wildly onto the shore throwing themselves down on the sand. That wave will never be seen again, it has served it’s purpose, it has completed its task for the King, even if it was just to be a wild wave.
The rhythm of His grace is my very heartbeat. When He died His blood penetrated all of me so deeply that I bleed His blood as I learn to fellowship with His sufferings. His blood runs through my body, keeping me alive and nourishing me. With out Him, I am dead. If this God of the Bible is not real, if He is not King, if He is not who He says He is, I quit. There is no other God I would rather serve. I cannot fathom a more perfect God. I want this one. And He is. He has given me a new heart, and it beats for Him, and only for my King.
This is an essay I wrote not too long ago. If you have any questions please contact me.
Oneness in Everything but Viewpoint:
A Sociological Essay on the Baha’i Faith in Brazos County.
The Baha’i faith is essentially about Oneness: Oneness of God, Oneness of man, and therefore Oneness in religion. Baha’u’llah, the most current manifestation of God according to the Baha’i’s, sought to unify mankind because he believed that to be the will of God. Last Tuesday I went to a Baha’i service in Bryan, Texas, and experienced firsthand the teaching of Baha’i lived out.
