"Teach my song to rise to You
When temptation comes my way
And when I cannot stand I'll fall on You
Jesus, You're my hope and stay"
When temptation comes my way
And when I cannot stand I'll fall on You
Jesus, You're my hope and stay"
Through the day I have been meditating on these lines from Matt Maher's "Lord I need You".
I have come to trust the convictions that come from meditating on the same thing. So I sat and thought through why I was stuck at this point in the song. I just could not stop thinking about what it brought to my heart.
I want to always to be able to say to God; " Teach My Song to rise to You When temptation comes my way." so my song could always rise up to the Lord in times when sin wages war. I know many a times, when I find myself at the place of vulnerable indulgence there is usually no praise on my lips for the Lord.
I want to always have my praise up for the Lord, in my song I can always have my eyes fixed on the Lord. My song has to rise so that the path of temptation is ever brought a close or even a dead end. That way, the path to sin is ever narrowed in my life.
David said of himself, " Your praise is always on my lips."
I definitely want to be able to let my guard down in beautiful surrender to God and be able to say, " When I cannot stand I'll fall on you. Jesus, you're my hope and stay"
He should be the only anchor for my soul. I need to learn everyday to let God be Lord over it all. I battle with surrender, to know that I have no control over the outcome of my life is threatening in itself, to know that the ship has it's own master other than me is scary but I want to be able to tell God, I cannot stand on my own...help me. Stay with me and help me see tomorrow.
I am banking on the fact that God knows it all, and that he wants me to let him have control over the situations of my life.
One man sang, " I love the way you handle my situations"
I want to be able to say that to God, that he has handled my situations through and through, that he has opened a way for life to be all about his cares on me and his protective arm all around. I want to fall always in the arms of God. To find strength for my feeble knees not in any place but in God. In reckless abandonment to what he can do for my heart's situations and circumstances.
In all of it, I hope I never reach a place where I stop needing God, Not in this lifetime. Never. May my earnest plea for life always be, "Lord, I need you."