Every day, for several weeks now, I’ve been waking up to the song Everything by Tim Hughes.
God in my living
There in my breathing
God in my waking
God in my sleeping
It’s a reminder from the second I’m pulled from the subconscious world so early in the morning, that my focus can’t be on myself. And although that’s hard to take at 4:45am, it’s also very comforting.
God in my resting
There in my working
God in my thinking
God in my speaking
But it’s so easy to get caught up in the trivial things of life. I can’t travel to 12 different countries a year anymore, because I have a car to pay off, and student loans, and groceries, and a cat, and other real-life adulty things. But these are the things that make this place home, as opposed to a temporary adventure.
God in my hoping
There in my dreaming
God in my watching
God in my waiting
But for weeks now, perhaps months, God’s been slowly revealing to me the words, “Christ in you”, and what that means. The more I meditate on it, The more I realize that it’s more than just a comforting idea to induce smiles.
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
We just completed a week-long fast, called by Pastor Jerry to the Church. It went faster than I thought it would, and despite a few evenings of intense cravings, it wasn’t as difficult as I’d anticipated. And it was …good. I’ve never successfully stuck to a fast before (and it’s still debatable as whether or not I stuck to this one properly, but I’m not looking to be legalistic here). When you intentionally weaken your defenses and take away your comfort objects (no coffee and no chocolate makes Katie something something), your shortcomings come to the surface a WHOLE lot faster. It’s a controllable way of seeing some of the things that need to be addressed and recognizing the places that God needs to heal… in preparation for the times when we’re uncontrollably weakened by our circumstances.
God in my laughing
There in my weeping
God in my hurting
God in my healing
No, it’s not easy to be bombarded by your weaknesses. But, as we learned this morning in devotions, if we don’t address our weaknesses and shortcomings ourselves, the enemy will most assuredly use them against us. And the enemy is not going to be gentle about it, like our loving Creator.
Christ in me
Christ in me
Christ in me, the hope of glory
You are everything
Wisdom. Power. Authority. Grace. Love. And that’s only the beginning…
22“I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one.23I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. John 17:22-23
Be my everything.
