Storm

This past weekend at church the sermon really hit home for me. The concept that although we are saved, our lives will not be perfect is hard for some people to swallow. I'm realizing it more and more. My life will not be easy, in fact I could be persecuted for my beliefs. It makes me think of Natalie Grant's song "Held."

Who told us we’d be rescued?
What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares?
We’re asking why this happens
To us who have died to live?
It’s unfair.

Chorus:
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we’d be held.

I've recently become addicted to Lifehouse (again). It just seems like their songs put into words experiences that I have gone through or experiences that my friends are going through now. I don't know if they consider themselves a Christian band. I know some people try to label them that way, and that several Christian bookstores in the area sell their songs. I don't know what the story is behind this song but it hit me this week that it could be taken in a religious way. It just keeps playing in my head. While I don't think that I am in a storm, I know several friends who are and I've been there, so I can understand the emotions this song portrays.

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

If I could just see you

Everything would be all right

If I could see you

This darkness would turn to light

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 all right

And everything will be all right

I know you didn’t bring me out here to drown

So why am I ten feet under and upside down

Barely surviving has become my purpose

Because I’m so used to living underneath the surface

If I could just see you

Everything would be all right

If I could see you

This darkness would turn to light

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 all right

And everything will be all right

I can visualize someone who is so confused pleading with God to make His plan and purpose known. I think at at times all of us wish we could know His plan for us, but at times He keeps it a mystery. It is at those times that I have felt like I was in the dark and I was pleading with Him to make His plans known. We just have to remember that everything will happen according to His timing, not ours!