Notes

Hey all,

I have come to the conclusion of 2 things. 1, I am horrible at blogging. 2, I've missed you all! :) I'm so so so sorry for not posting over the past what, 4 days? You guys may not care, but I do! I feel like I have a responsibility to post something at LEAST every 2 days for everyone to read. Do you think that's reasonable? I do. SO. Onto the blogging, saying as I haven't done much of it in the past little while.

I was going through my Ipod today, and I noticed something in my notes that I thought might be blogging material. Just some info for you guys, I am a TOTAL, self proclaimed note freak. I make mental notes and real notes all the time. My whole life is on paper. It comes out in writing, as you guys can tell. ANYWAYS. I was going through my Ipod and I found some lyrics to a song, and I was like, Oh. This is cool. The song is called By Your Side by Tenth Avenue North. Personally, I really like it. I'm not sure how popular of a band it is in the christian music world, but I'm into kind of indie undiscovered music, so I guess it may fall into that category in christian music too. I'm going to give the URL to the actual lyrics at the end, because this post would become WAAY to long if I posted them here.

What I had done, was change the lyrics up a little bit, so instead of saying YOU, it was saying I. Get it? So, this is what I changed it into.

Why am I striving these days? Why am I trying to earn grace? Why am I crying? (LEAVE SOME OUT)

Why am I looking for love? Why am I still searching as if You're not enough? (LEAVE SOME OUT)

Chorus: And You'll be by my side wherever I fall, In the dead of night, Whenever I call.

Pretty powerful stuff, isn't it. Now, I know that I can relate to this. I constantly look at other things to fill the void in my heart that I know, for a fact only God can. I know it sounds stupid, but I do it absentmindedly. I think we all do sometimes. So my challenge to you today, is to think about your 'God Substitute.' What are you substituting God for? A boy/girl? Drugs? Alcohol? I'm not sure. But I AM sure of this. God can make you feel better than any of those things can. BY THE WAY, I'm not saying if you're in a relationship, get out of it. I'm saying are you getting swallowed by it instead of getting swallowed by God. Think about it.

http://www.6lyrics.com/music/tenth_avenue_north/lyrics/by_your_side8.aspx

Happy Tuesday everyone.