Letting Go.....

You ever walk in on one of your friends listening to music through their earphones and belting out the words in some unknown key and you thought that was the funniest thing you have ever heard. Well I was privy to such an occasion last week and boy was it funny but through that the song she was singing got me thinking and now have decided to blog about it. She was singing a song called Letting Go by one of my favourite artists Jeremy Camp. This song talks about letting go of everything be it fears, be it failures and just seeking God. Just something we hear a lot of times in preaches, in Christian books and we seem to just never take in the full gravity of what's being said.

Over the Christmas holidays I became the proud owner of a Blackberry (don't you just love Christmas!! ), so was so keen on getting everyone I knew and stuff on blackberry messenger (best thing ever). Sadly few of my high school peeps had blackberries and stuff so could only chat to a few. Then a good friend won a blackberry and added me to her contact list, and these were exciting times as we hadn't been in contact in a long time. So she stays in Capetown (Joburg rocks!!!) and she decided to go hiking with a couple of her mates up Table Mountain (talk about suicide). So she's telling me this story of having this heavy bag and being further up the trail than her other counterparts and she's just chatting God and he tells her she's carrying stuff she doesn't need. So she perches on a nearby rock and checks and sees a whole bunch of unnecessary stuff, junk food she didn't get a chance to eat, hairdryers (just joking), but just a whole lot of unnecessary stuff. So feeling quite foolish she picks up her knapsack and keeps heading on her way up the mountain. Then out of nowhere this guy offers to carry her knapsack (take into account this is a total stranger), so for some reason she gave this guy her back. And they walk up the mountain trail and at times when she went round a bend she couldn't see him and she got paranoid (i.e. could be some theif off with her bag), but he always would appear round the bend. 

Just her story is such an amazing metaphor for what happens in our lives when we have baggage. We open the bags on that mountain trail of life and find we carrying around useless stuff. Instead of throwing them away we just think we can't do anything about them. Then Jesus comes along and says, let me carry this for you, not just the useless stuff, but everything we have, even the good things in our life. And when we decide to give Him all we have the good and bad, He is there walking with us. Sometimes we hit a blind bend and don't understand what's happening in our lives, but Jesus is there reliable and still carrying our lives on His back.

Maybe you still by that rock and wondering what you gonna do with all this stuff in your knapsack, or maybe you've given your knapsack to someone who started as a stranger but as He continues to appear after each bend your trust in Him grows. Let's let go friends, it's such an amazing feeling to know you have the ever faithful friend carrying your life in His hand. Just want to leave you guys with a couple of lines from Storm by LifeHouse

how long have I
been in this storm
so overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless form
water's getting harder to tread
with these waves crashing over my head 

and I will walk on water
and you will catch me if I fall
and I will get lost into your eyes
and everything will be alright

I know you didn't 

bring me out here to drown......

 

love, peace and happiness

Tau

Less is More...

Compliments on the new season all my fellow readers, its good to be back blogging again. Its been a very good two months away from writing and doing stuff and more of reading and contemplating which has helped me hear more and prepare me for my writing this year.

So this year I have a phrase that I feel will emphasise my main focus this year and that phrase is "Less is more". I had been chatting a lot to God late last year just seeking direction for 2011 and felt impressed upon my heart the phrase less is more and in unpacking that I felt 3 main things that I would focus on this year.

School

This is my final year as an undergraduate student and for me its really crunch time. Feel that God has been using my excellent academic record to gain respect and influence with my peers. Feeling to really hit it big this year, sort of like God has provided me with an amazing opportunity. Was talking to my brother before I left home and he was just telling me that sometimes we ask for success from God, thinking if we play the lotto we will win, or someone will feel called to give us enough money to start our own business. Well and fine those things do happen, but he says most of the time God provides us with opportunities either to study abroad, or to do school at a good institute and thats a big way he blesses us. So I feel very priviledged at the moment more than I ever have to be at the place I am right now. Praise God!!

Worship

Wow, after about 10 weeks of not being upfront and leading and just being a part of corporate worship has beeen a godsent. It was good to be back home and see the band just worshipping God and how even with all the stuff that happened in the background they led US into worship. Made me think of all the times when we had problems in my band and always felt like we needed to be perfect before we went on stage. Not to say that bands should be bickering and not moving in one accord, but God uses us because we are willing not because we are perfect. So if you are a worship leader out there or part of a band which just seems not to be going the way you want it and you feel on Sundays you all just a bunch of hypocrites, I hope you find this verse encouraging: 2 Corinthians 12:9: But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me. So I have come back refreshed and pumped and knowing its all about the kingdom, not how good or bad I did in worship, but how God was glorified through me. So have cut other service areas at church for a season, i.e. sound, sometimes media and have set myself wholly into glorifying God through this one act and not try to be the got to guy at church.

Health

This may sound a bit foolish to put this high up on my three things to concentrate but I feel it is very important. I think the shape in which my body is in will affect the top two above. So want to try my best to take care of myself. Signed up for swimming this year (haven't started though), and am eating one hot meal a day as my mother prescribed with lots of meat. Also drinking lots of water and I guess the only thing i haven't gotten under wraps yet is sleeping regular hours but will try make that happen.


So I'm back blogging again, am so sorry to my lovely readers have gotten the emails and will try blog more regularly. Got many drft blogs that are just waiting to be posted so will unleash those soon. Started this very blog two weeks ago, just goes to show how I haven't had enough time online other than today. In the word of Steven Furtick, " Dont't put Jesus first this year, rather put Him as the centre that way He'll always come first.

love, peace and happiness

Tau