How Cool is God?
Okay, so I promise I'm not manic depressive or bi-polar: whatever the current terminology may respectfully be. Yes, I realize I was just on here a few hours ago, I haven't yet been to sleep. (I'm trying to get my circadian rhythm back in sync.) I was going to take a little nap but I feared getting too far into R.E.M. sleep and not being able to wake up at a decent hour - thus keeping me out of sync for another day. But! I did do my journaling at 4:30 this morning, and guess what happened?
Last night when I went out for my drive I was listening to KLove and heard some really uplifting and thought provoking songs. One of the songs was: "Everlasting God" written by Benton Brown and performed by Lincoln Brewster. I'd heard the song plenty of times but I don't think I'd ever heard the version by LB with his son reciting Isaiah 40:28-31 at the end. The message of the song and verse was awesome - it totally "fit" where I was... AM... in life right now!
This morning as I was getting ready to kind of settle down for a bit I wrote a little over 5 pages; the pages of my current book are 5 1/2 by 8 1/2. I hadn't written since the 9th because I had been sleeping (for what seemed like 100 years). Anyway, I caught up - not much to write since I've been sleeping (for what seems like 100 years) - but at the end I remembered that last part of the song I'd heard. The specific part I remembered was where little Mr. Brewster spoke of "soaring on wings like eagles," so I wrote that at the close of my journaling: "I wanna soar on wings like an eagle." I signed off and closed my journal.
I've recently been doing a short devotional reading after my journaling; it's a booklet on defeating depression and it gives a Bible verse or passage and then there's a little blurb written by one of three Christian counselors. It had been a little bit since I'd read; the sleeping thing... 100 years... So I had no idea what the next reading was about. I opened the booklet up where my gum wrapper was holding my place and started reading,
"Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired
His understanding is inscrutable.
He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power.
Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,
Yet those who wait for the LORD
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary."
Isaiah 40:28-31 NASB
Is that not the coolest thing ever? I was blown away! (Oh ye of little faith, girl!) The paragraph below it goes on to read,
"When we are depressed we become weary and tired, and may even stumble more. But God never wearies or tires. He desires to give us strength and to encourage us. He understands what we are going through. He sees through us and perceives even our unconscious and subconscious motives. He wants us to take up His strength in place of our weakness. He wants us to wait for (depend on) Him to give us the strength to do what He wants us to do."
THAT, my friends, is how COOL GOD is!!!
One Hundred Ways to Defeat Depression
by Frank B. Minirth
ISBN 0801060664 / 9780801060663 / 0-8010-6066-4
Publisher Baker Pub Group
Last night when I went out for my drive I was listening to KLove and heard some really uplifting and thought provoking songs. One of the songs was: "Everlasting God" written by Benton Brown and performed by Lincoln Brewster. I'd heard the song plenty of times but I don't think I'd ever heard the version by LB with his son reciting Isaiah 40:28-31 at the end. The message of the song and verse was awesome - it totally "fit" where I was... AM... in life right now!
This morning as I was getting ready to kind of settle down for a bit I wrote a little over 5 pages; the pages of my current book are 5 1/2 by 8 1/2. I hadn't written since the 9th because I had been sleeping (for what seemed like 100 years). Anyway, I caught up - not much to write since I've been sleeping (for what seems like 100 years) - but at the end I remembered that last part of the song I'd heard. The specific part I remembered was where little Mr. Brewster spoke of "soaring on wings like eagles," so I wrote that at the close of my journaling: "I wanna soar on wings like an eagle." I signed off and closed my journal.
I've recently been doing a short devotional reading after my journaling; it's a booklet on defeating depression and it gives a Bible verse or passage and then there's a little blurb written by one of three Christian counselors. It had been a little bit since I'd read; the sleeping thing... 100 years... So I had no idea what the next reading was about. I opened the booklet up where my gum wrapper was holding my place and started reading,
"Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired
His understanding is inscrutable.
He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power.
Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,
Yet those who wait for the LORD
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary."
Isaiah 40:28-31 NASB
Is that not the coolest thing ever? I was blown away! (Oh ye of little faith, girl!) The paragraph below it goes on to read,
"When we are depressed we become weary and tired, and may even stumble more. But God never wearies or tires. He desires to give us strength and to encourage us. He understands what we are going through. He sees through us and perceives even our unconscious and subconscious motives. He wants us to take up His strength in place of our weakness. He wants us to wait for (depend on) Him to give us the strength to do what He wants us to do."
THAT, my friends, is how COOL GOD is!!!
One Hundred Ways to Defeat Depression
by Frank B. Minirth
ISBN 0801060664 / 9780801060663 / 0-8010-6066-4
Publisher Baker Pub Group
Totally inspiring and true!
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