Moving Forward

I'm listening to this song, Moving Forward by Israel Houghton and AHHHHHH. . . aside from the fact that is sounds great, the words are just PERFECT for people who has had a difficult past or a life that was without Christ.

I've never experienced suffering to the highest level, but I know how it feels to feel pain and cry myself to sleep. I know how it feels to be anxious and lose all appetite for things that make life interesting, happy, and beautiful. Pain and suffering are the two main things that make God popularly disliked, but they are also the very things that can draw one to Him.

This weekend I was at a college camp as a counselor and amidst the many complicated, heavy questions and issues, I came up with a few insights:

• Sin has made this world unpredictable and ugly. Perhaps, if God came to the rescue in every bit of crisis, faith wouldn't be exercised and God would appear rather desperate for our approval of Him. A King doesn't act as such. Though God is almighty and powerful, He still has limits in the sense that he cannot force anyone to love him back. 

• God owns the WORLD. He is the Master of everything and He has His own schedules, timetable, etc. As an artist decides to make a curve line rather than a straight line because he envisions the whole masterpiece, God is in control of our lives and He sees the OVERALL picture - the BIG picture. And because of that, you are left with a choice to TRUST in Him because He knows and you DONT.

• God is real and near. It's just us who has a problem in forgetting and hearing and LOOKING for "God-signs" everyday. Sometimes we complain about him being far away when He just saved you from being late at work or when He just blessed you with great friendships.

• "Your view of God, determines your view of life." - quote from one of the Pastors. 

Knowing all these will not automatically make life better or lighter, but one thing is for sure IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER if we all change our perspective. Really really.

Moving Forward  

by Israel Houghton

What a moment
You have brought me to
Such a freedom I have found in You.
You're the healer
Who makes all things new

Yeah yeah

I'm not going back
I'm moving ahead
Here to declare to you
My past is over in You
All things are made new
Surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving moving forward

You have risen
With all power in Your hands
You have given me
A second chance

Hallelujah hallelujah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm not going back
I'm moving ahead
I'm here to declare to you
My past is over in you
All things are made new
Surrendered my life to Christ
I'm moving, moving forward

You make all things new
Yes
You make all things new
And I will follow You
Forward