For the last few days I've been reflecting on my life - where I've been, where I am, where I'm going... One phrase keeps running through my mind: "the me I want to be". Maybe I'm in a mini-mid-life crisis. But sometimes I feel myself losing what scripture refers to as "the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ". My life is so much just working at my profession, trying to do a good job for my employer, and trying to care for my wife and children in all the ways they need my care.
But I don't want to let go of the joyful, carefree me who started following Jesus with all my heart back in 1980.
So I'm making a strong effort to become "the me I want to be". This means taking every opportunity to talk with my Best Friend in heaven - taking walks with Him, singing to Him, reading His words in the Bible. I'm looking for and soaking in those Still Water Moments when "He leads me beside still waters and restores my soul" (ps 23). I'm pushing back against stress and worry and yielding to His joy and nearness.
I feel like I'm about to embark on an adventure of reconnecting with the Lord. I am confident that He will soon be bringing us into sweeter fellowship with local believers as well. That's really exciting to me. And I'm praying that I might become the man I've always wanted to be in Him.
Well, in that spirit, I took some time off yesterday to pray - an extended lunch hour. And I found a secluded place to sing to the Lord with my old guitar. I took along my cheap little video camera and tripod and made this short video to honor Him.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
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Thanks for sharing your story, Chip. Your comment here about "the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ" is something God is showing me as well. Too many times we try to make it more complicated then it needs to be, we try to add things from our culture instead of simply sticking with the simplicity of Christ and what he has given us to live by. BTW. I loved you singing "Oh lead me" at the end of your last post. It was beautiful.
Thanks, Heather. But that wasn't me singing "O Lead Me". It was my all time favorite singer, Matthew Ward of the Second Chapter of Acts.
Wow. It sounds just like you! I listened to it three times and wondered how you got such good studio quality. Well, either way it was a nice version of it :)
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