This song has been on the radio a lot for the past couple of weeks. It always seems to hit me at the most inconvenient times. Driving home from work, driving to or from Wendsday night church. After a disagreement with a family member, or after being faced with rejection.
It always seems to come on at those moments when all I want to do is feel sorry for myself.
When I am wrapped tightly in my own chains of self-pity and self-centeredness.Then this first verse comes on and I think about the little boy, the broken wife, the dying prisoner. And I think to myself; "What have I done? What am I doing?"
Not only has Jesus given me complete and honest love. He has given it to me even when I do not deserve it. He still shows me how unconditional the love a perfect God is when He blesses me, even when I am acting like a ungrateful child. This love is what binds us, we can no longer be consumed with ourselves when Someone loves us like this. We can't keep it in and we can't hide it. The only response we can have to this sort of love, is to
share it.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
JJ Heller - What Love Really Means
Friday, May 7, 2010
Where Have All the Marys Gone?
This is a song I wrote a couple weeks ago.
It's a different style then what I usually sing, it was fun to play.
The melody came after the words which I wrote to be serious, and reflective.
Then I chose to lighten it a little with the melody:)
"And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
...But this one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her."
-Luke 10:39,42
Hope you enjoy it.
Lately that story has become more practical to me. I realize how much I am not like Mary. I choose to spend my time worrying, planning,being busy, and various other things that distract me from listening to what's most important. Young adult years can be hard, there are a lot of decisions to make. But instead of letting those decisions and changes worry me it should remind me how much I need God. His mercy and direction. I should be spending MORE time at His feet, not less.
This is just what I have been learning lately and I thought I'd share it.
