Recently I experienced the pleasure of attaining a church service where the Pastor, Bishop Jim Swilley, recounted a significant reference to a song by gospel singer and songwriter Andre Crouch. The reference meshed comprehensively with the Bishop’s message of seeing yourself forward as we approach the new year.
What struck me in particular was the dynamic of the lyric, listed below, in which the very real relationship one has with his creator has the life giving opportunity to be lived out in the reality of the daily experience.
Whether you believe in a universal God, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, or any host of other gods or divine personalities, or whether your thing is just ”the Universe”… what is important is your ability to align well with something you can believe in and take hold of as you navigate this split second in eternity that we have to express ourselves here on earth.
In my own experience, I have embraced a life of faith since childhood. I later aligned with a ministry that touched the world as we understand influence and the “spreading of the gospel of the kingdom of God”. Over the past year, my personal 2009, I’ve cautiously embraced the concepts of “the Universe” and the Laws of Attraction.
I’m finding, that is to say discovering again the undeniable tie ins and cross confirmations between the universality of being a 21st century “Christian Inclusionist” and the relatively [new to me] concepts of LOA; although I have experienced their beneficial cause and effect for as long as I can recall or attribute conscious appreciation toward.
So what’s your story? It’s time to get one. If life isn’t rendering the satisfactions and benefits that you know are possible, perhaps its time to start telling a different story about your life. Speak your own brand of life giving value, discover your personal worth. Let go of some of the mental gymnastics that result in limiting beliefs and find something positive to embrace, to believe in.
Make that investment in you – your loved ones are counting on it! Commit, or resolve in 2010 to live with a certain expectation of the miraculous inserting itself into your personal horizon. You’ve understood the concept of what it is to have faith… wouldn’t you prefer the certainty of knowing? Ask and it is given… This takes us back to the Andre Crouch song, entitled, “Through it All”
I’ve inserted the lyric and the video below for your contemplation. While Andre approaches his knowing through the vision of his Christian experience, his is not even three degrees of separation that mirrors your own personal possibilities. I wouldn’t hazard to endorse [to you the reader] Andre’s approach but I do submit to you that his knowing is your knowing, regardless of the path, the vehicle, the belief, or the method of expression. I’d equally uplift any other demonstration of hope, belief, faith and well-being. It just so happens that my hearing of this expression coincided well with my new years writings.
The message here is simple, create within yourself a demand on life’s well-being, proclaim it verbally, write it in a notebook, discuss it but lightly (because its your own working out, not another’s) be willing to be discovered or apprehended by well-being and it will surely find you and contribute in plentiful measure according to your positive expectations. Appreciate everything as it is all designed to guide you to your greatness.
When you do discover your path to your personal knowing, practice it with boldness and chronic expectation and I’ll check back with you in 2010
Jeff Nix
Below is Andre Crouch performing “Through it All” at a Billy Graham crusade in New Mexico in 1975
I’ve had many tears and sorrows,
I’ve had questions for tomorrow,
there’s been times I didn’t know right from wrong.
But in every situation,
God gave me blessed consulation,
that my trials come to only make me strong.
Through it all,
through it all,
I’ve learned to trust in Jesus,
I’ve learned to trust in God.
Through it all,
through it all,
I’ve learned to depend upon His Word.
I’ve been to lots of places,
I’ve seen a lot of faces,
there’s been times I felt so all alone.
But in my lonely hours,
yes, those precious lonely hours,
Jesus lets me know that I was His own
I thank God for the mountains,
and I thank Him for the valleys,
I thank Him for the storms He brought me through.
For if I’d never had a problem,
I wouldn’t know God could solve them,
I’d never know what faith in God could do.
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