Solo Voice

God hears my voice.

Among the crowd, my voice stands out. His ear is tuned to my voice. The other voices become background music that only amplifies my voice. He hears me best because He's closest to me!

In the same way, let every voice around me become background music to the only solo I need to hear. Tune my ear only to His voice. Let me hear Him best because of how close I am to Him.

Always moving closer.

Heaviness

This came to me in church yesterday.

There are times we feel so heavy, the weight of the world literally on our shoulders. We struggle to carry it, to stand, to even kneel with it.

This creates the opportunity for intimacy with the Lord. It can be an invitation to Him to literally come between us and the weight. His body covering mine, He shoulders the burden. He carries the weight as He carries me. His shoulders bear the weight, my shoulders bear the glory of intimacy with Him.

Heaviness breeds initmacy.

Cre8ve Thinking

Romans 12:2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. NLT

I don't want to copy what's been done before. Anyone can imitate what they've seen before. It shows the mark of individuality, of talent, of being truly set apart to create what's only been seen in the mind's eye. We are achieving our goal of being Christlike when we reproduce the occupation of our own Creator. His Word is creative, the gifts He has placed in us are creative, His timing is creative. The Holy Spirit inside us is creative. Anyone can follow a path that's already been paved. Jesus did not come so we could walk His path to His intimate place with the Father. He came so that we would see that that place exists, that we could learn how to create our own path, and that once He left, we would always know our way back.