Glad To Be Wrecked

A little bit of confession and transparency time for me. Six weeks or so ago, God used a song to wreck me. Well, re-wreck me. And it has been one of the best gifts I've ever received.

Starting back in June, God had already started stirring some things inside of me. A discontent with how things were and a passion to not stay there; to not settle or be complacent. So I had already been on a journey, but then it happened...

I had heard parts of a song on the latest SYMC promo video. I liked the sound of it, found the song and artist name, then went and downloaded it. Then for the next hour I just listened to it over and over. For some reason the words hit me right where I was, moving past my ears and registering somewhere in my soul. They absolutely described what I had been feeling. It's hard to describe, but it's been fatastic. It's all I would listen to for days, and I continued to process through some recent history in my life, and how I seemed to have slowly been creeping away from passionate faith to something lesser. I never stopped loving God, but I can see how I was settling on some things instead of simply & absolutely trusting God solely on faith and going after what I knew I needed to be going after.

That's all changed now.
And I'm so thankful.

It's truly awesome how God can use so many different things to impact so many different people. Stuff that hits me may not do anything for you, and stuff that hits you may make me go "...what?" But there's something beautiful about it. That despite differences, personalities, interests, God can use all of them to point back to Him. So what do you find is usually how God "touches" or "stirs" you? Feel free to share.

Today, I want to encourage you to find a way to slow down, step back and remember what He has done in your life. Every blessing you have is because He has permitted and provided. How has your life been changed? And will you daily continue to trust God with all of you? (If you can't think of an answer, maybe you need to ask "what am I not trusting Him with?")

It's worth it.

By the way, the song is "Alive Again" by Matt Maher
He will be at the conference (trailer below!)

If you're a youth worker, you want to be there.
Yes, it's really that good.
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