Monday, June 15, 2009

Changing words

Yesterday morning I was enjoying our praise & worship service and I had a sort of Freudian slip I guess you can say or was it the Holy Spirit? You make the call. I am not sure what the title of the song is but the words are as follows:

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Jesus is Lord
Lord of all my Heart

He is the Way
He is the Truth
He is the Life

I am singing the song with my eyes closed and hands raised when it came to the final line "He is the Life" I inadvertently said "He is my Life" and when I said that I believe my spirit leaped for joy within me. My heart started racing and even though I didn't really try all that hard I kept singing that line with "my" instead of "the", I felt this rush come over me that I needed others to sing it that way as well, but I also didn't want to disturb the service. As I was looking around everybody was lost in the moment so I kept it to myself and decided to tell Jock, our song leader, after church. Which I did and as I was telling it to him I saw him putting it together in his head and he liked it as well.

There is a little more to the story as well. As I was enjoying the message our pastor preached which was good as well, the Holy Spirit kept playing the song in my head and I believe also told me why the words were changed when I sang the song. Now I am not a mother, but I have been around a few and I am pretty sure most have said this at one time or another. That as soon as they held their child or children in their arms for the first time that child had their heart and became their life at the same time. And I believe that to have a true and meaningful life with Christ that has to happen to you as well. If you are going to give your heart over to him then you also have to give him your life too, the items are interlocked and you can't have one without the other. Like I said I am not a mother so I can't really speak from experience but when I decided to date and marry I couldn't exactly just be there, in order for my marriage and pretty much every marriage to work you have to put your heart and life into it. Yeah I can tell Daniel I love him but if I don't really mean it then I am not just cheating myself I am cheating him as well. And yeah I can go thru the motions of everyday life such as making dinner or laundry or even just watching TV but if I don't try and make the most of it then what is the point of even bothering and I will admit that I even get that attitude sometimes. But when I give my husband and our relationship all of myself, watch-out things start happening and I am not just talking in the physical sense either, even though that is much better too. hahaha

So in order for things to start happening in my life I need to start giving all of my heart to God and he will take care of the rest.

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