"Moving Mountains"

I speak in many tongues of many men
Argue with angels and they always win
But I don’t know the first thing about love
I prophesize and know all mystery
All living things are opened up to me
But I don’t know the first thing about love
Know the first thing about love
I have the keys to open many doors
Give all my possessions to the poor
But I don’t know the first thing about love
I’m moving mountains and have faith in me
Have faith enough to caste them to the sea
But I don’t know the first thing about love
I don’t know the first thing about love
all other things shall fade away
Love stands alone and still holds sway
all other things shall fade away
Into the ground into the grave
I give my body up into the flames
And never once did I deny your name
But I don’t know the first thing about love
I don’t know the first thing about love
- Thrice

Teach Me to Pray

Direct my thoughts outside myself
So i will sit up on the shelf
While on the shelf, let me see
Others in their misery
So i can help them through their pain
Be someone to stand with them in the rain
Another voice to call on high
For justice, love, a better life
Teach me how to see their hearts
That when one dies, another starts
Old hearts of stone turned into flesh
How theirs and Yours will start to mesh
Give me Your love for desperate friends
To seek You on behalf of them
To beg for mercy and for grace
So they might see Your aweseome face
For when our hearts are fixed on You
There's nothing else that we can do
- Castor

How God Can Bless

If there is a way to tell you all about how God can bless

If you could share with me in God's presence in my mess

Oh what a wonderful grace would crash down

And break us to pieces, simply at the sound

Once we're broken and we've lost all our pride

God can start to make us anew from the inside

He'll show you everyday, just like He showed me

That He has truly loved us from the start of eternity

How real and true are His great acts of grace

That it's alomst as if we are seeing His face

- Castor

In God's Hands

I was talking with a friend recently, and I mentioned to him that I am in God's hands. Obviously this doesn't mean a huge giant I call God is phyically grasping me as we speak. So what really do I mean?

The way i understand it i have surrendered to God's will in my life. I am not only letting Him direct me, but rather i've climbed up into his arms and He's carrying me to where He wants me to go.

The tricky thing about this is it means i have no control. But the beauty of it is that it means God is in complete control. The same God who created our solar system and every intricacy therein is also carrying me. He knows better than I.

But often times i'll get bogged down with guilt from my sin. What's happening there? I believe an analogy i learned this summer describes it perfectly. Satan is called the accuser. One of his main gimmicks is telling us Christians we aren't good enough for God, and that we need to work harder. He injects guilt when we don't do this. This is like Satan putting a treadmill next to me as God is carrying me. Believing Satan's lie is like getting on the treadmill and try and run to where God is taking me. Imagine how ridulous that would look like. Not only am i not going anywhere by my own effort, but it should be clear that i am going somewhere because is holding me. Before i know it i'm exhausted and discouraged because i can't see past the stupid treadmill.

Here is where God's grace comes back into the picture. Inevitably my hard work, running as fast as i can on the treadmill, is going to give out and i'm going to fall hard. It'll hurt for sure (if you've ever fallen off a treadmill you know what i mean), but i'll just fall right back into God's hands. All i need to do is see it and believe it, and go back to relying on God's strength to get me through this life.

As soon as i start relying on my ability to please God, i'm getting right back on the treadmill.

My only problem now is God's hands are so big and powerful that i can't see over them. I'm doing all i can to peer in between his fingers to see where He's taking me. That's the real adventure.