On my run this morning, I just was not feeling it. I did not run faster than normal. I did not run farther than normal. In fact, nothing was significantly different than most of my runs. It was just one of those days where my feet felt heavy from the first step and I knew it was going to be a struggle just to keep my feet moving. It was going to take all the discipline and will-power I had to get through the run. Nevertheless, I decided to tough it out, grit my teeth, and run.
You ever have those days?
Have you ever had those days spiritually?
You know those days. The days where nothing seems to be different than your normal routine. Those days where you begin to become tired and bored from the mundane, normalcy of life. Those days where nothing necessarily bad is happening, but nothing necessarily good is happening either. Maybe you are waking up after a night’s sleep and immediately feeling tired. Maybe you have no energy or drive to thrive and make a difference at your work/school. You know that getting through the day connected to your Heavenly Father is going to take all the discipline and will power you have inside you, but you do not know if you have it today. You feel tired, weary, burdened, and that you have heavy spiritual feet during these times.
Back to my run this morning…
I was struggling and pushing through the blah of the run this morning. During the final stretch of the run when everything inside of me told me to quit, I was reminded of who I was and whose I was. Through my iPod came a powerful song full of truth at just the right time, “Nothing Without You” by Bebo Norman. If you are tired, let the words of this powerful song minister to you and remind you of who you are and whose you are…
Take these hands and lift them up
For I have not the strength to praise You near enough
For I have nothing, I have nothing without YouTake my voice and pour it out
Let it sing the songs of mercy I have found
For I have nothing, I have nothing without YouAll my soul needs
Is all Your love to cover me
So all the world will see
That I have nothing without YouTake my body and build it up
May it be broken as an offering of love
For I have nothing, I have nothing without YouAll my soul needs
Is all Your love to cover me
So all the world will see
That I have nothing
But I love YouWith all my heart
With all my soul
With all my mind
With all the strength that I can findTake my time here on this earth
And let it glorify all that You are worth
For I am nothing,
I am nothing without You
May you run and not grow faint today. Remember Jesus’ words today from Matthew 11:28, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
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The song that followed “Nothing Without You” was “Earthquake” by Family Force 5, but I couldn’t find any deep, spiritual application from that song.
Wow! it is amazing how God can work through you and to share these things with the world. I have a short something i would like to share:
Ben told me to pass some of those awakening sheets to friends and so i was just giving them to myy friens and just goofing off. Well, i started to think of someone and she is less forchunate and she has hard times in school and i amagine at home. Well, after lunch i saw her in the hall and i said hey! here is a paper and you should come tomorrow night at the Lake Point church! and she said i don’t want to! and i said well just havae it and just come one night and then decide whether you want to come again. Well i don’t know if she really is going to come but i just am happy that i am getting the hang of what it means to REACH OUT!
~ Faith Dennis
Thanks for sharing Faith – and thanks for being faithful. I’m proud of you!
It is really hard to do something like that because you don’t really know what their reaction is going to be and you just have to think well, God has had the plans for you and you just have to trust him. Because he is God and he is AWESOME! THanks for the encouragement BC!
Love you big brother!
~ Faith Dennis
Ok so I’m really excited about this blog, Brian
2008 has not been “the best year” for me
14 days into the new year.. My dad dies
& it’s not like “oh, he was old” or “he was really sick”
it was we that his life was taken because someone made an accident.
I was very angry those first few weeks… mainly at God
but what I started to realize was that, this wasn’t God’s doing
God didn’t plan for this to happen.. it was part of someone’s Free Will
THEN
Colin tells me they are moving..
and I can’t believe God has given me such a wonderful family
then he is just gonna take them away from me like that??
I still haven’t really figured another way to think of all this
but you did remind me that HE GIVES AND TAKES AWAY
HE GIVES AND TAKES AWAY MY HEART WILL CHOOSE TO SAY
LORD BLESSED BE YOUR NAME!!
so I have just decided to pray that God will keep Colin & I close
and someday our paths will cross again..
now, my point to all of this message is that this song
“Nothing Without You”
and the song “You Never Let Go”
have both had a major impact on my life
MAJOR!
Matt Redman – You Never Let Go
my favorite verse of this song is
And I can see a light that is coming for the heart that holds on
A glorious light beyond all compare
And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
We’ll live to know You here on the earth
because even though i’m going through a storm
God is there, always & forever
my favorite quote ever is:
“tough times don’t last, but tough people do”
AMEN!
love you…