Simplicity
I was watching a video, of a skit performed to the song Everything by Lifehouse which David sent in the mail sometime back and it really shattered me.
Video which is linked at the bottom of this post potrays a girl who shared such an intimate joyful reationship with God before the distractions of the world began to emerge. From relationships, money, addictions, vanity/peer pressure, and finally suicidal thoughts. Seemingly impossible obstacles which eventually hinders God from view.
But as watched the video again i began to realize something else which holds so true. The moments where you decide to try, to see what the world might offer is not as simple as just dipping your toes in the water. The damage would have been done from that very moment. The skit depicted that so well when the girl embraced the alcholism which to me symbolized an addiction for that one moment and when she realised what was going on, she turned back.. rid herself of the bottle but the damage was plain to see. The addiction had painted a scar or an obstacle on that connection to God. The chase for money all the other temporary highs of the world eventually building up in our lives.
Oft and again we'd turn back and remember that one person who loved us so much he gave the world up for but scars seemed so hard to breakforth from. Sometimes we give up, we think its too hard.
Let me personalize it, Sometimes i too want to give up. More often then not i wrestle with myself over the things i have done or have let into my life. The mistakes i've made. It just seems so insurmountable. I've tried, Oh i've tried.
Finding that glimmer of hope is all i need to continue to try ..but only to fail again.
But maybe thats the problem. It's not just a glimmer. Cause God is there, only has been and he's never going to give up hope in me so why should i content myself in finding a single ray of hope when Jesus took up the cross to calvary to set me free for all eternity. Is there a bigger promise then that that he'll lay his life down just to save me.
In the skit the character that potrayed God finally comes in between the girl and her demons and finally vanquishing them. All she ever needed to do was call out to him again, to fight her way back. She was never going to win the battle over her demons on her own, it took God and all he ever needed was for her to want him back in her life.
The word simplicity struck me troughout my time watching the video. And if you think about it, there really is all there is to it, the simplicity of God's undying love and its always us who complicate the matter when all there really is to know is His Love.
..Thousand times i've failed, still your mercy remains
Should I stumble again, I'm caught in your grace..
Jesus Loves Me & You=)
Video which is linked at the bottom of this post potrays a girl who shared such an intimate joyful reationship with God before the distractions of the world began to emerge. From relationships, money, addictions, vanity/peer pressure, and finally suicidal thoughts. Seemingly impossible obstacles which eventually hinders God from view.
But as watched the video again i began to realize something else which holds so true. The moments where you decide to try, to see what the world might offer is not as simple as just dipping your toes in the water. The damage would have been done from that very moment. The skit depicted that so well when the girl embraced the alcholism which to me symbolized an addiction for that one moment and when she realised what was going on, she turned back.. rid herself of the bottle but the damage was plain to see. The addiction had painted a scar or an obstacle on that connection to God. The chase for money all the other temporary highs of the world eventually building up in our lives.
Oft and again we'd turn back and remember that one person who loved us so much he gave the world up for but scars seemed so hard to breakforth from. Sometimes we give up, we think its too hard.
Let me personalize it, Sometimes i too want to give up. More often then not i wrestle with myself over the things i have done or have let into my life. The mistakes i've made. It just seems so insurmountable. I've tried, Oh i've tried.
Finding that glimmer of hope is all i need to continue to try ..but only to fail again.
But maybe thats the problem. It's not just a glimmer. Cause God is there, only has been and he's never going to give up hope in me so why should i content myself in finding a single ray of hope when Jesus took up the cross to calvary to set me free for all eternity. Is there a bigger promise then that that he'll lay his life down just to save me.
In the skit the character that potrayed God finally comes in between the girl and her demons and finally vanquishing them. All she ever needed to do was call out to him again, to fight her way back. She was never going to win the battle over her demons on her own, it took God and all he ever needed was for her to want him back in her life.
The word simplicity struck me troughout my time watching the video. And if you think about it, there really is all there is to it, the simplicity of God's undying love and its always us who complicate the matter when all there really is to know is His Love.
..Thousand times i've failed, still your mercy remains
Should I stumble again, I'm caught in your grace..
Jesus Loves Me & You=)
posted by Joe at 9/17/2007 12:09:00 AM
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