But I'm still a dreamer, a believer. Though I've lost faith in so many things but I still believe in You. Because You can make everything new.
I don't have every answer in life but I'm trusting You one day at a time, Cause You can make a weak heart stay alive forever. This is where heaven and earth collide. I lift my hands and give my life. You can make my weak heart...stay alive."
As previously stated in earlier blogs/posts, I wanted my writings to be encouraging to others and possibly life changing. But what I didn't say is that I get just as much out of them as you do. Most, if not all of these writings come from personal experiences, things I've heard before that really stuck with me, and things that God reveals to me during the time me and Him have alone together.
Now, don't get the wrong idea that I'm just that shady college kid. I'm not. But one thing I look forward to everyday is the time that I get to have my own little worship session in my room. Its nobody but me and God. Most of the time, it consists of YouTube videos that are uplifting, songs from my iTunes playlists, prayer, and scripture reading. One of my favorite videos to watch is Carrie Underwood and Vince Gil singing "How Great Thou Art"...thats good stuff!! But the other day, I was just in a funny mood. It was one of those moods that everyone sometimes gets in where you really don't know what kind of mood you are in.
I have choir everyday except Friday, and I must say that one of the best things about being at a Christian college is that almost every professor has an opening prayer. In choir, Bro. Turner asks for prayer requests at the end of the class. It isn't anything new, but so many people were asking for prayer for their friends, family, and even themselves. For some reason (I guess the mood I was in), I felt strangely connected to all of them. At the end of the session, I came back to the room for a little "God-Time". I was drawn to songs such as the one I posted at the beginning of this blog, "The Redeemer" by Sanctus Real, and even songs such as "Until the Whole World Hears" by Casting Crowns. I listened to the words of this song and was reminded of a video I had watched previously. I had watched the video "How Great is Our God" by Chris Tomlin and Louie Giglio. It wasn't the song that Chris sings and that we sometimes sing in youth, but more a sermon made by Louie that goes with the song. I encourage EVERYONE to watch this video.
Louie and Chris did a tour the year before this video came out entitled, "the Indescribable Tour". Louie starts off this message with some of the same things he mentioned in the previous tour. He talks about the size we are. We often like to think that we are the center of the universe. But in fact, when compared to the size of the sun, we could put 960,000 earths INSIDE the sun! And yes, that is the correct number of zeroes in that number! But the marvelous and mid blowing part is...the sun isn't even the biggest star known to man. There are stars much larger than the sun! Are you starting to feel small yet? Thats about how I felt when I thought about the size of the universe and how God created all of these huge, enormous, beautiful, powerful things but yet He took the time to make me special. In scriptures, we are told that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. That even in the womb, God knew us. He knows every hair on our head and has a perfect plan for each of us. I was still in this 'small' phase when it came to the second part of the video. This is the part where it gets good. This is the part where God shows up, blows our minds, and reminds us that when everything falls apart...He doesn't. Louie begins to explain how he had the opportunity to meet a molecular biologist. They had a talk about how Louie was planning a sermon on the human body and they were exchanging ideas. The biologists asked what the left hook in the sermon was. Louie didn't have one yet since he was still in the planning stage of the sermon. With excitement the biologist responds..."It's LAMININ!" Let me explain to you what exactly laminin is. The human body is made up of protiens. Scientists don't know how many proteins there are in the body...but trust me...theres alot! These protiens form together to make strands of DNA. In each DNA strand, there is a series of numbers that contain the very things that make each one of us different. Laminin is a molecule that bonds each of these strands of protein and DNA together and holds them there. It is the glue of the human body.
Look familiar? In the beginnign when God created man, He knew the very thing that would hold us together! Both physically and spiritually. You see no matter if our problems in life are as big as the largest star or as small as this little molecule, God has always been there and is there to hold us together. This made my day completely when I saw this. Go watch the video and then listen to Carrie sing and see if you and God don't become a little closer through that experience.
Note that to get the full effect of the video, you need about 40 minutes. You can go to YouTube to find it and to find a shorter version, but I reccomened the full thing.
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