you happen to life
superchick has amazed me many times with catchy but heart-slicing poignant lyrics. they often change my thinking toward how I think God wants to live. Without limits, with abandon, passion and conviction.
“…it doesn’t happen to you, you happen to life” - So Bright (Stand Up) by Superchick
They’ve got it right, stand up, stop laying down, counting the days. Don’t let the nightmare take control of you. No shoulda, woulda, coulda. Live your dreams. The piercing question I have to ask myself hearing this as I hope you do too is, what is holding me back, and how can I destroy it.
Right now the church is living backwards. We are, it is true. We care more about what people think than what God says. Frankly I’m sick of it. I have myself spent too long being okay with going to church and doing my religious duty of looking half-way with-it. If that’s what you want, religion, you’ll find it in churches of all kinds these days. Very few people realize that the “christian” way of living is also just a fake facade to hide behind. We are all afraid to live out loud, to be about something bigger than we are. We are sitting still and liking it. Entertained and unmoving, uncaring and unnoticed.
I am going to start happening to life, what about you?
So many people are looking forward to heaven, and singing about how all they want to do is go home. I’m sorry my friends, but I DO NOT want to go home, at least not yet. Do you know how many people there are on this planet that need help, that God loves? Do you how much work there is to do? So many in ministry shock me with their lack of enthusiasm for what they are doing. Doing eternal work is “just another day” to them as well. I understand burnout, but cmon, someone has to be thrilled that they have reached that living from who God made you place.
When the time comes, I hope that I am living in such a way that God has to rip me from the earth, because I am way too involved trying to do his will and help his people here. When it is time, I will excited to go home for good, but we only have a limited time offer to shine. Let’s make it hot.
