I'm sure many of you have heard the song Divine Romance by Phil Wickham, but if not, I urge you to look it up! I posted the lyrics below:
The richness of Your beauty’s all I see
The brightness of Your glory has arrived
In Your presence God, I’m completely satisfied
For You I sing I dance
Rejoice in this divine romance
Lift my heart and my hands
To show my love, to show my love
A deep deep flood, an Ocean flows from You
Of deep deep love, yeah it’s filling up the room
Your innocent blood, has washed my guilty life
A couple nights ago, i was completely overwhelmed. I had some family stuff dealing with a relative that I could not stop thinking and worrying about. School had taken its toll on me and I had barely been getting enough sleep to keep everything going. Swimming was getting tougher and tougher every day, and I was at the breaking point. It was about 12 that night, and I was laying in my bed, trying to memorize a thing i have to say from memory for church's Christmas program this weekend. I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't handle (felt like i couldn't handle) life any more at that moment. i wanted life to pause in that moment and just give me a break. so i quit what I was doing and grabbed my iPod. this song, Divine Romance came on. I cried like a baby. We have a Jesus, a Savior who wants to be with us and love us and receive the glory he rightfully deserves! This song just reminded me of that. It made me wanna sing for him, dance for him, rejoice in his presence, and show him my love in whatever way i could. guys, look what Jesus did for us! he died for us, yet he continues to FILL US each and EVERY day. no matter what. he never stops, even when we want to.
Romans 8:38-39. Rejoice in the divine romance we get to have with Jesus!
This is super cool. I love those unexpected moments when you can tell that God really knows what's on our heart. I've been overwhelmed a lot with school too. I was just sitting in the commons one day about to fall asleep when i had an epiphany- i felt as if i had just discovered the meaning of life. But it went something like this:
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It is easy to forget that school and careers are not what life is about. We go to school so we can learn to be independent thinkers, so we can learn how to be the best version of ourselves. We should spend our careers working to benefit society in a positive way. We shouldn't be living with our heads always focused on work because if we are not happy then honestly, whats the point? We should focus more on living in the moments of happiness. As christians we are called to go even further above this, we are called to live our life for God and for the betterment of his kingdom. Our life is just a blink compared to eternity. This is always something that i find comforting when i feel like i am over my head.
Someone told me just yesterday that if you worry, it means you're not trusting. So all the stress and worry that we put ourselves through means that we are failing to trust God.. So just trust Him. Let go of your worries, and let Him have control. I know it's hard to do, but like Catherine said, there's more to life than school and work and all the things that overwhelm us, we just first need to let God be our #1 and trust that He'll pull us through. Thanks for the post!
ReplyDeleteyes! agree with both of you 100%. great points y'all brought up! and emma, i've heard someone say that before, too! it's a really good way to keep yourself in check. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting about this song! I'M IN LOVE WITH IT!!!!!! Seriously, I can't stop listening to it haha
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