When the music fades

And all is stripped away

And I simply come

Longing just to bring

Something that’s of worth

That will bless your heart

I’ll bring You more than a song

For a song in itself

Is not what You have required

You search much deeper within

Through the ways things appear

You’re looking into my heart

I’m coming back to the heart of worship

And it’s all about You

All about You, Jesus

I’m sorry Lord for the thing I’ve made it

When it’s all about You

It’s all about You Jesus

King of endless worth

No one could express

How much You deserve

Though I’m weak and poor

All I have is Yours

Every single breath

I’ll bring You more than just a song

For a song in itself

Is not what You have required

You search much deeper within

Through the way things appear

You’re looking into my heart

I’m coming back to the heart of worship

And it’s all about You

All about You, Jesus

I’m sorry Lord for the thing I’ve made it

When it’s all about You

It’s all about You Jesus

It’s all about you

Jesus

What do you see when you look at these lyrics? Does anything in them stand out to you? For me there is a lot that stands out. I see a song that should speak to us and show us that worship isn’t about us. That it is all about Christ. All too often we approach worship as what we can get out of it, or when we are just singing the words and not letting them truly impact us and change the way that we act and think. In my own experience I have found that usually when I worshipped I was doing it to what can be referred to as an empty room, sure there were lots of people around me singing too but I wasn’t singing to God. I was just singing because that’s what we were supposed to do. But this isn’t how we are supposed to worship, in our worship we are supposed to be singing to God and communicating with him. That’s what this song is all about. Look at the first verse it talks all about stripping away the music and all of the distractions and just coming to talk to God. It talks about how when we come to worship God we are supposed to long to please him, that worship isn`t about pleasing ourselves or about showing off to others but that when it really comes down to it, it is all about God.

The chorus of the song is what really speaks to me though. This section clearly shows us that God requires more than just our empty singing. He wants us to come to him with an open heart, a heart that longs for him. God wants us to come to come to worship ready to praise him and to want to get to know him better. It shows us that God searches our hearts and knows what our motivations are when we come to worship him. It talks about how the heart of worship is Christ, not us, not what others think of us, but all about Christ and talking to him.

We can see in the next section that our worship will never be enough to repay the debt Christ paid when he died for us. It shows us that he deserves so much more than we could ever give but that we should give everything that we have and are to him. It tells us that every breath we breathe should be to glorify him.

This song really does tell us a lot, but the real question is whether or not we will let it have an impact on us and change the way that we approach worship.

I find it so incredible to see that even though these people didn’t have the encounter with Christ and only heard about it second hand they still believed. Later on we see that they saw for themselves that Christ was the saviour of the world. Why is it that these Samaritans can see this but the Jews or the even the disciples that are always with Jesus are not able to see this?

I got to thinking about this and the more I thought about it the more I realized that it’s kind of like Christians.  Christ can be right in front of us but we won`t see him, we are too stuck in our ways, too comfortable with how things are that we don`t look for him and even when we think we see him we don`t believe its him, we start to doubt that it really is him. Where is this faith that we claim to have? We need to be shaken awake, knocked out of our comfort zones. We need to look for God in our lives and look for the ways that he tries to talk to us, we need to listen and let him guide us in his way, and we need to ask where he wants us to go with our lives. Many people (me included) would ask the question of how do we do this, but really it is very obvious. We need to stop for a moment and take time out of our lives to pray and to just sit quietly and wait and listen for God to talk to us because God truly wants to talk to us and to tell us his will for our lives. God longs to be in communication with us, but we need to stop being so involved with the world, we need to stop being part of the world, stop letting it distract us from God. We need to let him into our lives and let him talk to us, and we need to spend the time talking to him, let him show us the way that he wants us to go.

This won’t always be easy to do, we will face times when we don’t hear God’s voice, times when we feel that we are far away from God. We can see in the Psalms that even David had these moments. In these moments we need to make sure that we remember that God is always nearby, that he is always trying to talk to us, and that he is still answering our prayers even if they aren’t in the way that we are wanting him to answer them.  During these times it is important to take a moment out of our lives and to see what we are doing wrong. Are we putting forth the effort that God wants from us? Are we spending time talking to him and are we spending time waiting for God to talk to us? Are we falling out a regular reading of his word? Maybe God is trying to speak to us through his word but we aren’t seeing it because we aren’t spending the time that we need to spend reading his word. I know for myself whenever I am going through these times it is because I haven’t been putting forth the necessary efforts to talk to God. These things are so important for us to do, they are so important for our communicating with God. And it is always when I started to take time out of my day and started spending time reading the word and praying and really trying to connect and talk to God that I was able to hear his voice again. It was once I made the effort to really listen to him that I heard his voice, it wasn`t that he wasn`t talking to me, it was that I wasn`t making the effort, I said I wanted to hear God`s voice but I didn`t want to do anything to talk to him. This is something that played a part in my life lately, after the Mexico trip I have made more of an effort to spend time with God, to talk to him, and to wait and listen to what he wants to tell me. In this time I have seen God working in my life is so many ways. He has been teaching me so much about who he is, he has been showing me how I can better learn to listen to him, and he is showing me more about myself and about the struggles that I was trying to handle by myself. He has also shown me how I can truly give everything up to him, how I can give all my struggles, my worries, and concerns up to him.  I was able to see all of this through spending a little bit of my day talking to God. But it makes me wonder is it really too much to ask for us to give up a little bit of our time every day to talk to the one who created us, and loves us so much that he sent his son to die on the cross for us? Are we that focused on this life that we can’t even stop and ask God to show us what he wants us to, are we so focused that we can`t stop and just talk to him? God wants to talk to you, will you let him? Will you spend time talking to him?

He knew that you were suffering, he knew you were in pain.
And knew that you would never get well on earth again.

He saw your path was difficult, he closed your tired eyes,
He whispered to you “Peace be Thine” and gave you wings to fly.

When we saw you sleeping so calm and free of pain,
We would not wish you back to earth to suffer once again.

You’ve left us precious memories, your love will be our guide,
You live on through your family, you’re always by our side.

It broke our hearts to lose you, but you did not go alone.
For part of us went with you on the day God called you home.
—Author Unknown

you will always be remembered Oma. I love and miss you so much

Ok so in our Grade 11 English class we read the play Hamlet by Shakespeare and our teacher gave us an assignment to make a movie trailer for it. these are the bloopers for the video we made, unfortunately I couldn’t find the original of it. Below is the trailer that another group in the class created.

In only a moment truth
Was seen revealed this mystery
The crown that showed no dignity he wore
And the king was placed for all the world
To show disgrace but only beauty flowed from this place

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands

He held the weight of impurity
The father would not see
The reasons had finally come to be to
Show the depth of his grace flowed with
Every sin erased he knew that this was
Why he came

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands

And we just don’t know the blood and
Water flowed and in it all
He showes just how much he cares
And the veil was torn so we could have
This open door and all these things have
Finally been complete

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
From his hands
From his hands
From his hands
From his hands
From his hands