Voice of Truth - Casting Crowns

Was very ministered to by this song. =)

Sabbath Rest

"Delight yourself in The Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." [Psalm 37:4]

I'm truly thankful for the opportunity to be able to study a term overseas at the University of Michigan.

I believe that it is really a defining moment for me in my life where I'm just brought back to the core of my faith. It has been a wonderful journey of learning to enter Sabbath Rest as described in Isaiah 58:13-14... where i've grown in intimacy with The Lord, interdependence with my biological and spiritual family and integration of The Lord into my life... where i've learnt not to merely "fit God into my life", but to truly centre my life around Him.

The journey began at the start of the year - where The Lord convicted me of being religious. Yes, i can go to church every week, i can even serve in church... but it can just be a mere motion and the heart behind it all was so wrong. But thanks be to God, for bringing me back to just fall in love with Him all over again. I realize that my spiritual growth is something that I have to take responsibility for - how much i grow all does back to my relationship with God. No amount of doing religious things/None of my spiritual leaders can make me grow at all!

As I came to the US, The Lord just stripped me bare of all my crowns and trophies; all the distractions in my life... and just drew me closer in intimacy with Him. Truly the cry of my heart is that God'll lay upon my heart what is upon His. For all my desires count as nothing as compared to His all surpassing greatness. I pray that my only desire will be what God desires.

Indeed being human, it's very easy to forget. That's why it's so important for me to daily come to the cross and relinquish my rights. I pray for the grace of God to teach me how to walk the Christian walk - to be my source of strength, my guide, and my delight always... that I may live the simple life of loving God and loving His people. =D

Who am I - Casting Crowns

Who am I

That The Lord of all the earth

Would care to know my name

Would care to feel my hurt

Who am I

That the Bright and Morning Star

Would choose to light the way

For my ever wandering heart

Bridge:

Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done

But because of who You are

Chorus:

I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean

Vapour in the wind

Still You hear me when I'm calling

Lord, You catch me when I'm falling

And You've told me who I am

I am Yours

Who am I

that the eyes that see my sin

Would look on me with love

and watch me rise again

Who am I

that the voice that calmed the sea

Would call out through the rain

And calm the storm in me