Faith

Tonight, I was listening to my brother's iPod. Along came the song, I will rise by Chris Tomlin. I love this song. I really liked it when it first came out, but it recently took on a sad connotation. This song was the final song played at my Pap's funeral in July. It was a really appropriate song though.

Anyways, so tonight I heard it and I was a little sad, but one of the lines really stood out to me. The line says, 'my faith shall be my eyes'. I love that. Faith is seeing things as God says they are, and not how I think they are. Literally taking my faith and belief in the God of the Universe and using that to see everything. Every person who I encounter, every situation that I am placed in, every thought that I have... it is all supposed to be looked at with God's view in mind. I need to see sin as sin. I need to see that person that might annoy me as a lost person who needs a Savior. I need to take my thoughts and hold them captive so that they will be pleasing to my Lord.

It is so cool to me when God speaks to my heart at a weird time. For instance, I was not so much of a happy camper this evening. My plan: just put Shane's ipod in on the ride home and sulk. That's right, I wanted to think about why I was mad and why I had the right to be. It was awesome that God had other plans though. He took that anger, which was sin, and turned it into me learning something about not only me, but about a principle that I should apply everyday.

I have noticed that I write about mainly songs or what other people say that impacted me. In the very beginning of GCBI, when I made this blog, I started out with the Word. I want to get back to that. Not that I think songs or other stuff like that is bad, but I want to have my foundation in the love letter that my Creator has for me. So, I will hopefully be putting up a blog that is about what I have been reading and studying.

More to come...Daniel 3 probably. I love that chapter. Read it. :)