Everyone knows the popular Christian song "Our God" by Chris Tomlin. If not, you can watch the video below, but you must have been living under a rock for the last four years or so.
This morning in worship, we were singing this song. The words were so familiar, comfortable, and easy. I didn't have to think about it, just letting the words flow over my tongue.
And if our God is with us, then what could stand against?"
I realized something new in those words. In the past, I saw those lyrics as a proclaimation. No human or created begin, not the enemy or his minions, can come against me because of my right-standing with God through the blood of Jesus.
But I can stand against me.
I can get in my own way, even when the enemy is running from me. I can choose to stay safe and comfortable and refuse to taking risks. I can walk the easy, level, paved path of my own choosing, simply because its familiar and easy. So often in my walk as a daughter, I'm the one that's stopping me.
Instead, I want to choose to live in the space where obedience is the only reason I'm leaning into the wind on the edge of a cliff. I want to jump when the world screams at me to stay, to live a life of big dreams and wild abandonment.
I'm getting out of my own way.
