Our Clumsy Hands...

God of this City

You're the God of this city
You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of this nation
You are

You're the light in this darkness
You're the hope to the hopeless
You're the peace to the restless
You are

For there is no-one like our God
There is no-one like our God

Greater things have yet to come
Greater things are still to be done
In this city

Greater things have yet to come
And greater things have 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

For there is no-one like our God
There is no-one like our God

Greater things have yet to come
Greater things are still to be done
In this city

Greater things have yet to come
And greater things have still to be done here

Joel 2:28-32

The Day of the LORD

28 "And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.

29 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

30 I will show wonders in the heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.

31 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

32 And everyone who calls
on the name of the LORD will be saved;
for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there will be deliverance,
as the LORD has said,
among the survivors
whom the LORD calls.

There's something about the simplicity of this song that speaks volumes of the power of Christ. I remember thinking that life in itself is this idea of how humans come up with way of bringing complexity to simplicity. In a nutshell, the simple things of life become so complex when put into the hands of humans. I have found the truth of that in my own mind as it surges forth trying to answer every question within my head and understand every situation surrounding me. There is this song by Mainstay that has these lyrics "I keep on searching for the answers I don't need..." and this brought about another in my mind is that often times the depravity of my own mind asks questions that search for answers that I don't need. In the bombardment of these questions, I found my own heart getting lost in the "what ifs" and "uncertainties" of life while having such a stranglehold on my life...

However, as God has brought me out of such a place and bringing an amazing security, there are different impulses that raise up from my heart out of the depths of my soul from the Holy Spirit that revitalize me with life. In a world with such hurt and pain, our God is the God of our city...and my heart couldn't help but beat harder for Tuba City...As I reflected on the experience, and the visions that God placed on my heart to see that place won for Christ, my heart couldn't help but to send off a shout at the tips of my toes hoping that extra inch would help God hear the cry of my heart a little louder!!!

In a world with so much calamity, we can trust in a God who is the light extinguishing the darkness, the author who is writing out a redemptive story through our lives, and a father who is picking up his broken child to carry him through...this is the message that is burning like embers in the depths of my bones...Our God is able...and may He securely fix it upon my life so that I would never lose sight of this God who we can call upon His name to be saved...

And so in this, I hope to share with you the sweetness of Christ, the amazing grace that liberates our souls, and the changing power of the Holy Spirit that fills our lives. There will come a day and perhaps it in this day we must see the outpour of God's spirit...within the honesty of our souls, God comes and invades our hearts in ways that we cannot explain.

Lord, I pray that our lives would be investing in those things that would last an eternity. Burn within these hearts a desire to not just grow in maturity, but also with intimacy with your heart. May you share with us your thoughts, your visions, your purposes, and your plans so that even through broken lives, you can begin to shape this world with the transformative love of Christ. God, reclaim your kingship, right here and right now..... not my will, but your will be done.