Let Me Be Singing....

My heart was stirred this morning....that's the best way I can put it. I was driving to work and saw the sun coming up (yeah Tuesdays are early mornings!) and so I took a picture (because I take a picture of everything!) and then put my phone up and kinda forgot about it.

So I get to my office and I'm "finishing my make up" (maybe I had none on, ok?) and I am listening to worship to music like I always do before chapel. Anyway, the song 10,000 Reasons by Matt Redman comes on, and all of a sudden....it's like the world stops.

Have you ever had that moment. It's like the clouds part, everything slows down, and you realize your real purpose here on earth??? Deep for 7:15am let me tell you, but that was the moment I had in my office. (My husband walked through as I'm having my moment and I told him "I'm having such a moment here, I may not be able to finish the other eye!!" #makeupprobs)

If you're not familiar with the song, the first verse says this:

The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning. 
Time to sing your song again. 
Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me, 
Let me be singing when the evening comes.

Ok pause. (and enter my pic of the sun coming up!) What an unbelievable prayer! "Whatever happens today God, let me still be praising you when the sun goes down." How simple and yet, so profound.

Then the chorus says:

Bless the Lord oh my soul, oh my soul. 
Worship His holy name.
Sing like never before, oh my soul. 
I worship your holy name. 

We sing about blessing the Lord a lot, and you read about it in scripture. But this touched my heart this morning, because I WANT to BLESS the Lord. After all He has done for me, how much He loves me....what a truly intriguing idea that I could POSSIBLY bless Him in any way! But if I can I WILL! What does that look like?? That's today's mission and challenge! I WILL figure out exactly what that looks like and strive every day to do it to the best of my ability.

Ok, so skip to the 3rd verse, (although the 2nd one is equally good!):

And on that day when my strength is failing. 
The end draws near and my time has come. 
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending, 
Ten thousand years and then forevermore!

How amazing! It just reiterates my need to figure out what "blessing the Lord" looks like, because that is what I was CREATED to do! And it's something that we will be doing for eternity. I love to think that even as the end may draw near, still Lord I will be singing your praises.

Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me, let me be singing when the evening comes!

Let this be our prayer today, and our mission to understand what it truly means to bless the almighty God! And also, let us remember that wherever we are in life---full time ministry, student, doctor, lawyer, stay at home mom---we were CREATED to worship and bless the Lord. Let's not waste a minute!

MUCH love!!!!
Jessica