I recently brought a “worry” before God, and before I knew it, I was thinking of different ways I could reason my way through the situation with logic, or get expert advice to help me make the best decision. I felt very clearly God saying: “You look to ME.” This was kind of revolutionary for me, and I realized in that moment that I ALWAYS compare myself to other Christians – you know, the “good ones” – to see how I’m getting along in life, or if I’m making the right decision. But God calls me to look to HIM and be obedient to HIM – not to shun the council of friends, but to recognize the brilliance of His divine (and unique!) plan for each of his children. (If each earthly child is unique and requires specific kinds of parenting to grow into adulthood, surely the Heavenly Father knows all the more that HIS children are unique, and in the same way need to be steered in slightly different avenues along the same voyage.) The following is a song I wrote in pieces (doing dishes, driving to the bank) over the last 2 days. As a disclaimer, it’s a mesh – some pulled from my exact experience, some mirrored in things I’ve been learning in the BSF Isaiah study, some my perceptions of “the world at large” – whatever that means. =) I think it’s better with the tune. But you can get the gist. I really need one of my singer/songwriter friends to write  a rockin’ guitar part. =)

 

A temptest rolls over you masked as a party.

You feel you are capable, young, and foolhardy.

But your hours, they fill up with waves of deceit -

and before you know it, you’ve met your defeat.

 

You look to me -

You look to me.

My wisdom, it echoes through eternity.

Oh temporal human, the one that I love -

if you want to see, look up -

- up to me.

 

You can’t even see that you’re captive to “nothings” -

that emptiness rules, it is warring and trumping.

Well take up your arms, dear, it’s well worth the fight!

And shake off those liars with all of your might.

 

You look to me -

You look to me.

My power, it stretches across the wide seas.

My ways, they are perfect – my laws bring you peace.

So if you might want to be free -

- look to me.

 

If the eyes are the window down into your soul,

then your gaze can destroy you or lead the way Home.

The battle’s much fiercer than you may have known.

And despite your pride, you won’t make it alone.

 

So you look to me -

You look to me.

You won’t find My equal, this I guarantee.

It might take dethroning those “powers that be,”

but you will have all that you seek -

- when you look to me.

 

The world’s got a handful of eyecatching “princes” -

they might put their hope in their wealth or defenses.

But you, you are MINE – I have bought you anew -

So they can look where they want to -

- but YOU look to me.

 

You look to me, you look to me.

I hung out my body for you on that tree.

If that doesn’t do it, what will turn your head?

It’s for you, my darling, I bled -

 

You look to me, You look to me.

I am who I am, and I will always be.

I’ll abide in you – will you abide in me?

And in you I’ll do a new thing -

- when you look to me.

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