If the oceans roar your greatness so will I!
“If the stars were made to worship so will I
If the mountains bow in reverence so will I
If the oceans roar Your greatness so will I
For if everything exists to lift You high so will I
If the wind goes where You send it so will I
If the mountains bow in reverence so will I
If the oceans roar Your greatness so will I
For if everything exists to lift You high so will I
If the wind goes where You send it so will I
If the rocks cry out in silence so will I
If the sum of all our praises still falls shy
If the sum of all our praises still falls shy
If You left the grave behind You so will I
If You gladly chose surrender so will I
If You gave Your life to love them so will I
You’re the One who never leaves the one behind”
So will I by Hillsong
It has been a beautiful time here in Vietnam. We have been teaching English in a coffee shop called Vision Cafe. Our shift starts at 3pm till 10 pm. We spend the majority of the day with some Vietnamese friends so they can practice their English. Also we have at night an English club where one of us prepare a lesson to teach and on Saturdays we have karaoke so they can practice their English in a funny and musical way. 🙂 Definitely is awesome to see how they want to learn this language to be able to get a better job, travel around the world or even better to be able to communicate with others and know more about their stories and hearts.
Also we are living close by the beach which is a beautiful gift from God this month! Mostly because is Christmas time and we miss our families, friends, country, traditions, snow, weather, food, etc.
I have to confess that every second I have free I try to go to the beach. Just to see the ocean and its greatness. It’s beautiful to see those waves and think how wonderful is our God. But last week I was having a hard time with God, I felt kinda overwhelmed.
As some of you know for the next months I am leading a beautiful team of 5 incredible and wonderful girls and sometimes because I don’t want to “messed up” and I want to do and be the best that I can for them I put myself in a restless position, always overthinking and want everything to get done perfectly. And I’m not saying that is something wrong but at the same time I was letting the noise inside of me to be bigger than God’s voice. I was letting my own strenght to do everything, to lead me. At the point that I started to complain and asking God why He wasn’t talking to me or why I was feeling him so far away when I needed him the most. One night I decided to run to the beach and as I was running I started to fight with God and asking all the questions over and over again. It was me the ocean and God.
At some point I sat down on the beach with the beautiful never ending ocean in front of me thinking how big is our God and how silly sometimes I am.
Somehow I started to talk to God again. This time was just a talk and not a fight.
Me: God if you can hear me stop the ocean!
If you are here stop the ocean, the waves. I don’t know what but do something! I want to make sure you are here and you can hear me.
God: I don’t need to prove you anything, you know that I’m here.
Me: But God I don’t feel you! I don’t even know if I can hear you.
God: Mute the noise inside of you, your distractions and you will hear me.
Do you see those waves roaring? They are praising me!
Do you feel the wind? Is praising me too!
Do you see the mountains ? They bow in reverence just to praise me! Why will I stop them?
And If my creation worship me and praises me, I want you to do the same even when you can’t see me! Even in your questions! Even in your doubts! Even when you can’t hear me! Cause I’m the one who never leaves the one behind!! I want you to be still and know that I am God!! To trust me and not in your own strength or knowledge. And as a sheep follow my voice I want you to follow me and hear my voice.
UUhhhhh!! What a moment! I was crying like a baby. I was complaining and I was the one who was turning God’s voice off. Sometimes the biggest challenge to each of us is pausing long enough to notice him right beside us. Even Paul in Phillippians 3 says:
“If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal,persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.”
My prayer for you today is that you can turn off the distractions and noise inside of you so you can hear his voice. I pray that you can praise him even in your questions and stumbles. I pray that if you are reading this and you don’t know about God or you think He is not real, that He can show you his endless love through the ocean, through the mountains, through the wind, through the rocks, through a child on the street, through a stranger on the coffee shop, in a million different ways. Because he is the one who will never leave you behind!
