The place that we belong.

Our beloved Father please come down and meet us
We are waiting on Your touch
Open up the heavens, shower down Your presence
We respond to Your great love

We won't be satisfied with anything ordinary
We won't be satisfied at all

Open up the sky, fall down like rain
We don't want blessings, we want You
Open up the sky, fall down like fire,
We don't want anything but You

Our beloved Jesus we just want to see You
in the glory of Your light

Earthly things don't matter
They just fade and shatter
When we're touched by love divine

Open up the sky, fall down like rain
We don't want blessings, we want You
Open up the sky, fall down like fire,
We don't want anything but You

Here we go lets go to the throne
The place that we belong Right into His arms

we sang this song at church tonight, and my heart broke. not for the lyrics, by any means, because they have power behind them, but rather for the fact that sometimes i find myself just singing simply because the words are on a screen. and its funny enough that i felt that in my heart, and im pretty sure i wasnt the only one, but the Lord spoke through Gerald tonight on the fact that sometimes we stay contained in our Christian bubble that we fail to realize that it is a hinderance to us. it keeps us "safe". i dont realize that by doing this that it's actually working against me and i am letting Satan win. i am allowing him to use my "safety" that is contained by Christian mediocrity to rule me instead of letting go of myself, like Jesus asks me to, and allowing HIM to use me. did you catch that? by keeping myself safe from the world i am no longer a witness to the world. i am a cheap imitation of what a Christ follower is suppose to look like. In Matthew 5:14 Jesus says, "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden;" this is the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus is addressing a multitude of people, but in this particular verse, if read properly, you can see that Jesus is actually charging us as believers to be in the world to shine in the world. to light up the darkness and show people who Jesus really is. to live a life worthy of the gospel. In 1 Corinthians 9:14 it says, "the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel." HOT DANG. that's a shot to the heart. God himself commands us that if we are claiming that we know Christ, that He is alive and inside of us, that we trust in Him and His working power, then we should find all that we are in that truth. and that's where i fail most often. but that is also my prayer most often. that in everything that i do i will be able to literally "practice what i preach". i dont want anything else but Christ. do you?