Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
Ones that are far beyond my reach.
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see
Listening to this song i realized that seeing through Gods eyes there are people everywhere all around me hurting and hurting and even my family and best freinds that i have not been paying attention to. I know its there but its like i dont want to know its there. I have been running from God. When everything was piling up, when everything seemed to be getting at its worst, when everything seemed unanswered and lost, I ran. I was questioning, and i was hurting. Why arent my prayers being answered. Why doesnt my dad understand why i want to go to Africa for a mission trip. Why does my brother have to be so upset at life. Why are my friends hurting. Why are my friends looking for love in the wrong places. I was losing faith, slowly but surely.
Just recently I went to a Phil Wickham and Charlie Hall concert. As Charlie Hall opened and was playing songs he also spoke a few words. One of the things that really got my attention was how he said people of the earth will steal from your heart. They take and take. But our Heavenly Father pours into our heart. He pours His love unconditionally into OUR hearts. He loves us so much. Earlier today it finally hit me. When my friend called me and told me that her boyfriend had shoved her and yelled at her. It hit me. People all around me are hurting. Hurting like never before. And lately I have been so caught up in being broken myself through things I have been going through that i have not been leaning on God to see whats going on around me close enough.
God is there to comfort us, no matter how damaged and broken we are. No matter how far we have ran from him. He is waiting for us to come back to Him. To stop looking on earth for the love that only God can give us. The moment my friend told me what had happened was when i realized that i have been abandoning my God, that i was giving up hope in the all powerful God. My faith had crumbled and my walls are higher than they have ever been. But i know that my God is stronger and is still waiting for me to fall to my knees and come back. And pouring love from my heart to others like my best friends and my family, and all others is what I should be doing. The love that God has shared with me. I know my walls are up, but I know they will slowly come down in time. I know that God will take care of us, and that greater things are coming, into this city, into my life, into this world. And I am ready to embrace the love of my Heavenly Father once again, because no one on earth can fill that void of emptyness besides Him.
2nd Corinthians 1:3-11
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.
The past week things have really been put in front of my eyes. Although It seems like each week gets more and more deep and harder to embrace God as time passes and Things get more stressful, full of more hurt, more brokenness, and more of just plain life. I will stop. Breathe. And listen. Listen to the voice of God. Even when it seems as He is as far away as possible, I know He is right there whispering in my ear. He is the God of this city.
You're the Light in this darkness
You're the Hope to the hopeless
You're the Peace to the restless
There is no one like our God
There is no one like our God
For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done in this City
You're the Light in this darkness
You're the Hope to the hopeless
You're the Peace to the restless
There is no one like our God
There is no one like our God
For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done in this City
