Greater Things

Life was designed to be challenging. It is the only way that we may come to see God's greatness. If life were a cakewalk many people would go by life without ever hearing about God's great news. Life often throws you around and kicks you from side to side, it's supposed to. I firmly believe that there is beauty in the ugly from these experiences. I think that with this belief is how I came to have a focus of putting your attention in the right place, at the right time. It's so easy to give up and forget the world and end up a failure. If we do choose this path, what do we accomplish? What's your excuse? Life is just an accident? I would like to disagree. Even if you had no beliefs or faith, no values of any kind, you have to be able to admit that even in a self-centered point of view, life is not an accident. You live each moment to build up the next. Every thing you do and encounter builds you to knowing something new about yourself, adding something to yourself that no one can have - your character.

I know many of us have been six feet from the edge and were thinking about it, some even with a foot off the edge. But the amazing thing is that, as long as we are willing, all we have to do is turn around and walk away from that cliff. I've been there myself, I know what it's like. With all this being said, the song "God of This City" by Bluetree reminds me that God has greater things in store for us as a community, as a city, that have yet to come. Having the faith in this knowledge brings so much satisfaction in feeling that, yes life may be garbage right now, and things could not possibly get any worse, but there IS a way out of this because God runs this world. God is the King of this city. And as the most faithful King out there, He will never let us down even if we lose faith. There is no one like our God, and this cannot be any more true. It just takes some experience and some realization. Hope whoever comes across this will see that as well. Many may have already heard this song but I want to put the lyrics here as a reminder. In the deepest, darkest places of our world and in our lives, God's light burns bright, waiting for people to come and take hold of it.

You're the God of this city
You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of this nation
You Are

For there is no one like our God
There is no one like our God

Greater things have yet to come
Great things are still to be done in this city
Greater things have yet to come
Great things are still to be done here

You're the Lord of Creation
The Creator of all things
You're the King above all Kings
You Are

You're the strength in our weakness
You're the love to the broken
You're the joy in the sadness
You Are