It wasn't a good weekend to have all this stuff planned for but still survival is key and I am OK at surviving (well so far in my life I am). As I said in my a post I wrote about lent a couple of weeks ago I have given up energy drinks so I couldn't through out this weekend just run to Tesco's and grab a energy drink of whatever sort I was craving at the time.
Instead I found myself looking out to the world more... sounds kinda weird but I looked to nature a lot more. I do gardening and I really enjoy it because it puts me in a place where I am surrounded by beauty and creation and there I am destroying it..... no but seriously it helps to put my life into perspective and helps me to want to grow in what ever direction the Son (or sun in flower terms) is pointing me to.
So anyway I'm exhausted like I have never been before maybe its because I didn't sleep to well or long for that fact or maybe it was because I didn't sleep for long enough (I heard its healthier to wake up after 4 hours sleep then 5 but what do I know....?) so yeah maybe it could be that but still I had to get my energy from somewhere.
Colossians 1:11 ESV May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy.
This verse came up when I was reading my bible over the weekend. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy..... What does that mean?
For me it mean't that whatever reason God had called me to be in Brought Into Being so I had to give them my all and all. This didn't get me very far... After the gig on Saturday night I overslept on Sunday morning and I instantly thought "Great well thats all the energy God has given me... Thanks a lot". Not even thinking about the fact that at the gig on Saturday night as we were all setting up I was struggling with a bad back, pulled muscle in my leg and a sore throat yet I still managed (somehow) to play bass for 45 minutes with all the jumping.... head banging.... back up vocals and everything else that comes with a stage show (you know the occasional back flip and what not).
But seriously I had totally forgotten that God had filled my very need to give my all the very night before and yet in the morning I am so quick to pounce on His promise because I don't "feel it"... the truth is that sometimes I don't want to "feel it" because I think that I don't deserve it or because I have so many other things I have to do right now then be filled with His promise.
What I totally forgot was that I am filled daily with God's Love, Grace, Faith, Energy and all the other things that I need everyday. He fills me.... not energy drinks not coffee... I mean yeah they help give you a buzz but its nothing compared to what He has in store for us all.
Energy... it comes and goes but God's promise remains forever.....
Don't you forget it! :-)
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