Tuesday, 7-14-09
One of my new favorite artists (new to me) is Addison Road. I love the song, "What do I know about Holy?" and I've listened to it many times. This morning I was really listening to the words as I was going to pick up Elissa from VBS and I was just overcome by my complete arrogance. I identified with the words and thoughts she was singing. I could see where I had made God small and accessible and thought, "Do I really fear Him?"
Seeing my arrogance has been a big theme in my life the last couple of weeks. It is humbling. God is showing me how I desperately need Him and to know Him in order to live in humility. I use to think that being humble was some how equated to being weak and lowly. Someone who was quiet and never spoke their mind and who let people walk all over them. That is such a wrong interpretation of humility.
God is showing me how cool it can be to walk humbly with Him. It is seeking His will daily and thinking of others as better than myself. It is being teachable and moldable into the person He wants me to be, for His glory. Who doesn't want that?!
Songs really hit my heart a lot. If I think about it, it is because they are honest and real feelings of the song writer that I can identify with. That is how I want to be - honest and real - so that my friends and family can really see me and the person that God is working out in me.
There are two scriptures that have impacted me lately.
Philippians 2:1-4
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
James 1:22-25
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.
Just needed to share,
Heather
Seeing my arrogance has been a big theme in my life the last couple of weeks. It is humbling. God is showing me how I desperately need Him and to know Him in order to live in humility. I use to think that being humble was some how equated to being weak and lowly. Someone who was quiet and never spoke their mind and who let people walk all over them. That is such a wrong interpretation of humility.
God is showing me how cool it can be to walk humbly with Him. It is seeking His will daily and thinking of others as better than myself. It is being teachable and moldable into the person He wants me to be, for His glory. Who doesn't want that?!
Songs really hit my heart a lot. If I think about it, it is because they are honest and real feelings of the song writer that I can identify with. That is how I want to be - honest and real - so that my friends and family can really see me and the person that God is working out in me.
There are two scriptures that have impacted me lately.
Philippians 2:1-4
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
James 1:22-25
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.
Just needed to share,
Heather
2 comments:
What a beautiful song and a beautiful message here Heather. I find myself worrying when I go to long and don't see my faults with in me...it means I am straying away from Gods word. The Closer we stay to God the more we see with in ourselves what we need His help with in us. We really do serve a Holy, Holy, Holy God.
Blessings on you and your family =O)
I love that song too, thanks for sharing such great thoughts! I can relate, and you encouraged me!
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