Songs, Stars, and Subtleties

So far the week has been amazing. I have had time to really be in prayer and to read God’s Word. It has been kinda crazy. On Friday night I found myself pushed against a frigid window in a small bus in the middle of rural Georgia staring at the clear night sky. I looked up and my eyes were immediately drawn to Orion… my favorite constellation in the sky. It was amazing. I could see every star in that guy’s belt and every little star that makes up his warrior physique. It was crazy! I had never, in the many years that I have stared up at him, been able to see him quite so clearly. There is something divine about looking up at something I have always thought of as beautiful and realizing that I hadn’t seen anything yet . Up until that night I had thought that I had seen everything that that cluster of stars had to offer and came to the quick realization that all of the hustle and bustle and glamour of the cities that I have been living in had masked some of this natural beauty.

I find this same situation with God. I find that right when I think that he can not be any more faithful or any more beautiful to me, I end up turning off one more light or distraction from him in my life and he becomes that much more clear to me and I am that much closer to him. I strive to one of these days actually turn off those lights and really strip down my life to a point where I am able to really appreciate that true beauty of the Lord and everything that he is. I want to be able to see him the way that he is and not the way that I want for him to be. All of the ideals and the situations that I have built up in my life … my little city if you will that I have created… has definitely clouded the decisions that I make in my life and thus my relationship with God. I know this… I pray that slowly but surely I will be made aware of the buildings that need to be destroyed….ha ha I am really loving this Stars and City metaphor that the Lord is using to teach me.

While I stared up at the stars I started to think about how this same beautiful night sky was the same sky that I would be seeing in a week over Iraq. Right as I started to think that, my ipod shuffled and “Indescribable” came on. I LOVE how God does that!!!

“You put the stars in the sky and you know them by name. You are Amazing God!!!”
Indescribable by Avalon