Back in the summer of 2024 I was doing what I do every week, perusing through music videos to prepare music worship for our Christian service at a halfway house. I’d been doing this since the end of 2019 and was discovering the vast array of phenomenal Christian music. I’d shared many videos with my little congregation and meaningful experiences through the songs.
After nearly five years of this prep, I one day had a sudden impression that came so powerfully I couldn’t ignore: ‘You should be blogging this.’ Huh? I don’t do social media; barely look on Facebook. How do you blog? Yet I couldn’t ignore the prompting. So I learned. Had some serious help - thank you Jay and Jeremy - And I’ve been doing this weekly Blog for over two years now.
Does God know me? Enough to guide me through this path I would have never thought to step onto on my own. Does He know those who create the music and the videos that have been so meaningful to many of us, that turn us toward Him? Does He know you, who hears something in the music that sparks something divine in you? Of course He knows us! And we’re just regular people doing what we do, inviting the divine into what we do. We are called by Him. Hopefully we answer His call in our doing what we’re doing. Without worry!
‘When you worry ‘bout today or tomorrow and the storms that they might bring, try to remember that you’re in the hands of the God who made every single thing.’
Do Not Worry - Ellie Holcomb
Who are you again? Oh yeah. Say it aloud - “I am a child of God.”
What power does that give you? What assurances?
‘I have a father, He calls me His own. He’ll never leave me no matter where I go ... He knows me ..Wants me .. Formed me.. Hears me.’
He Knows My Name - Tommy Walker
You have a water bottle- it’s clear plastic, says ‘Spring Water’ on it. It looks refreshing and clear. But it’s in plastic, only a few ounces, and the bottle has a crack in it.
How long will the water in the bottle last? Can you trust it’s source and claim for cleanliness? What is getting lost out of that crack? What is seeping in through the crack? Leaching from the plastic?
You’re standing next to a constantly flowing spring. The water is clear and plentiful- tested and proven over and over to be clean and with beneficial minerals, without harmful agents.
Where do you want to drink from?
Which water will cover you head to toe?
‘I came with a dry heart cracked like desert clay, carried my hunger down the long road of shame. You met me by the well, Lord, you knew my name. You said ‘Come closer, come taste of grace.’ Let it wash my soul, make me clean and whole.’
Drink The Living Water - Daily Christian Jesus Worship
I love what Jeremiah 16:16 teaches: Rednecks Wanted! Fishers and Hunters to gather God’s people. Is that why so many country artists sing of Jesus? Pick up your pole, take a look through your scope. Gather as Jesus guides you.
‘He said ‘Come follow me,’ and they laid their nets on down; walked away from all they knew to seek a higher ground ... he told them there and then, I will make you fishers of men.’
Fishers of Men - Tim Malchek / Scenes from The Chosen
What fun it is to go fishing with such a brother!