God is in Control!

My beautiful friend Mika and I have been practising an item that we have sung out a couple of times and are going to sing at a couple of other events before the end of the year. It is a nice song, sounds pretty and I really do enjoy singing it. What really challenges me though is the words and every time I sing it I am challenged by what it says and the fact that... YES .....I really do mean the words that I sing. Here are the words............ The Stand You stood before creation Eternity within Your hand You spoke the earth into motion My soul now to stand You stood before my failure Carried the Cross for my shame My sin weighed upon Your shoulders My soul now to stand So what can I say What can I do But offer this heart O God Completely to You So I'll walk upon salvation Your Spirit alive in me This life to declare Your promise My soul now to stand So I'll stand With arms high and heart abandoned In awe of the One who gave it all So I’ll stand My soul Lord to You surrendered

I know that it has been a while since I have blogged, but with holidays and camp and all the rest of the things that have been happening it has been one of the many things that has not been done. I was doing some reading the other day and came across a really great saying that has been on my mind. Been on my mind because I read it, but also I think because the Holy Spirit is teaching me something about it. Anyway, here it is............ "You don't serve God because you are good enough. You serve God because HE is good enough." And you know that it is really true. I don't serve God because I am good enough to do any of the things that I do, I serve God because He is my Creator, my strength and without Him I could do nothing. Sometimes I try to do things on my own, and as sure as anything when I do that I inevitably fail, because I, in my own strength and under my own steam can only accomplish so much. It is only by HIS redeeming love, grace and mercy in my life that I