Everything: It's All You Need

So a couple of my students told me about this video a few weeks ago. I knew I had to check it out because I knew the song they were talking about and I had to see how it was used in a skit at a church. I watched it and sat in aww of what a fantastic portrayal it was of the temptations we all face as we walk the journey of life and how God is always present but it is our choices that push him away. Before I go deeper in this let me show you the lyrics to the song. This is Everything by Lifehouse:

Find me here and speak to me

I want to feel you, I need to hear you

You are the light that's leading me

To the place where I find peace again

You are the strength that keeps me walking

You are the hope that keeps me trusting

You are the light to my soul

You are my purpose you're everything

And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you

Would you tell me how could it be any better than this

You calm the storms and you give me rest

You hold me in your hands, you won't let me fall

You steal my heart when you take my breath away

Would you take me in take me deeper now

And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you

Would you tell me how could it be any better than this

Cause you're all I want, You're all I need

You're everything, everything

And it repeats from there. The song is fantastic and pretty much says it all, How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you. If you are standing with God and have allowed him into your heart then I don't think it is possible to not be moved by Him. Being with God is the greatest thing because being with God is being completely loved and whole. Allowing Jesus into your life and standing with Him is all we need, he is everything. God created everything and poured his heart into all creation. I can only imagine that is why there is such an abundance of beauty in this world.

The thing I love about this video (besides the fact that it is just all around moving) is if you watch the Jesus character closely he never stops fighting and trying to get back into the girls life. How perfect and true! It doesn't matter what we do in our life, God is still fighting and trying to get back in our lives no matter what. That is unconditional love! Grace! God never....NEVER leaves us, it is our choices that push Him away and make us lose sight of His presence, but as soon as we decide to choose Him, He helps us push everything else away.

Each day we live presents a new adventure, and multiple adventures. And each day we choose which adventures to participate in. We can choose the adventures that will lead us to money, sex, violence, etc. Or we can choose the adventure of discipleship. These are the extreme adventures, sure, but it is our choice which direction we will head and I have to think that being a disciple of Christ, a follower of someone who will love me no matter what and who will choose me even if I don't choose Him, is an adventure of a life time and can only lead to greater things. And I have seen what it looks like when you wake up in the morning and choose Christ. I have witnessed it with my youth group kids on mission trips. The transformation is unbelievable, indescribable.  And to see it in teenagers makes it that much more powerful! I'm not saying that every morning I'm strong enough to wake up and choose the right adventures, but I do know what it feels like to do so. 

So as I go to sleep tonight my prayer will be that when I wake the adventure I will choose will be to follow Christ and that you and all those around you will choose the same. And for those that don't, that they might see you in your adventure and decide to run back to God and let Him fight away the things in their lives that distract them from Jesus. It's the adventure I choose!