Friday, 05 December 2008
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I declare You Are
I was listening to the Album "Hello Love" by Chris Tomlin. I really like this song, called "God of this city". It sets a prayerful heart amidst what we perceive as darkness and hopelessness in where we are, and it declares that God is still God of this place, regardless of how desolate we feel wherever we are. It encouraged me greatly because often, this is how I feel for being in the city of Adelaide, with friends constantly leaving.
I often think, with the efforts we put in, and sowing into people's lives, we seldom see results. We seldom reap harvests from our works. We often reap other people's work, and people often reap ours, and yes I've been very privileged to see the fruit of my sowing in rare instances, while not really taking full credit for it.
Have you ever felt, that the difference you want to make isn't really felt in the place where you are? Would you wonder if that's really termed as "impacting the nations"?
This song was written by a band called Bluetree. The story goes, the band was on a mission trip/tour to Thailand, and when they were in Pattaya, an owner of a bar ("brothel") got to know they were a band, and invited them to play in his bar. And it was there in streets of Pattaya, this song was spontaneously birthed in the middle of sets of songs Bluetree was performing. It was not written before, just spontaneously came, in the middle of a bar, of the streets of Pattaya, in Thailand.So will you join the likes of those who will give themselves to a cause greater than them? Will you choose to see the opportunities that is God given, instead of despair? Will you hope for greater things to come in where you are?
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