Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Song of the week is back for 2011!

Happy New Year everyone... I thought I'd re-start a tradition I began last year... if I aim for once a week at least it means I blog once a week most of the time, eh?

I'll blog a bit more about my plans for 2011 soon... in the meantime here's a track I'm enjoying at the moment:

My Will - DC Talk

I'm setting the stage for the things I love
And I'm not the man I once couldn't be
Nothing on earth could now ever move me
I now have the will and the strength a man needs
         Chorus
         It's my will, I'm not moving
         Cause if it's your will, then nothing can shake me
         It's my will, to bow and praise you
         I now have the will to praise my God
Complexity haunts me, for I am two men
Entrenched in a battle that I'll never win
My discipline fails me my knowledge it fools me
But you are my shelter all the strength that I need
          Repeat Chorus
I'm learning to give up the rights to myself
The bits and the pieces I've gathered as wealth
Could never compare to the joy that you bring me
The peace that you show me is the strength that I need
          Repeat Chorus (We've got to be children of peace)
In one of the repeat choruses they also sing, it's your will not mine....


So much of the Christian journey is a "battle of wills".  Sometimes I think that I'm following God's will for my life, only to discover that I chose what I wanted.  Sometimes too the battle is even deeper... a battle between God's voice and the devil's.  Is that voice in our conscience the still small voice of our Heaven Father... our experience... or the voice of one who doesn't want us to follow his leading?  When making an important decision I think it is worth wondering who's will you are following.


Even in this New Year (including if you're not a Christian).  Will you follow the negative voice of past hurts, or difficult experiences that prevent you from going somewhere or trying something new?  Or will you put the past behind you, trust in your skills, experience and knowledge and take a risk?


Who's will are you following in you life?  Are you willing to make a change for the better?


I've just been thinking.... what do you think? Joce xo xo <><






 

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