A number of
months ago when I was still in school, something happened that encouraged me
and made me smile. It was nothing dramatic or ‘huge,’ but even in its subtle
form, it was and still is a big deal to me. It was an early morning on a Sunday
and I was heading to church. I was taking a long sidewalk from my school that
leads to a bus stop outside the campus. I can’t really place my finger on all
the thoughts I had going on but I’m pretty sure cluttered thoughts about the present
and my future and how things will play out were on my mind as they often are.
As I was
walking with my jumbled thoughts, and likely anticipating the message which God
was going to whisper to my heart in church, the chorus of a song came to me. It
was an old song I hadn’t heard in a long while. You know when something happens
and you go like ‘that must be God’? That’s exactly what I told myself. The
chorus of the song goes like this :
I'm already there
Take a look around
I'm the sunshine in your hair
I'm the shadow on the ground
I'm the whisper in the wind
I'm your imaginary friend
And I know I'm in your prayers
Oh I'm already there
Take a look around
I'm the sunshine in your hair
I'm the shadow on the ground
I'm the whisper in the wind
I'm your imaginary friend
And I know I'm in your prayers
Oh I'm already there
I'm already there
Don't make a sound
I'm the beat in your heart
I'm the moonlight shining down
I'm the whisper in the wind
And I'll be there until the end
Can you feel the love that we share
Oh I'm already there.
Don't make a sound
I'm the beat in your heart
I'm the moonlight shining down
I'm the whisper in the wind
And I'll be there until the end
Can you feel the love that we share
Oh I'm already there.
I have no
idea where the song came to me from. Like I said, I hadn’t heard it in a long,
long while and from nowhere, without making any effort to remember it
whatsoever, the song filled my head. I was quite surprised and yet convinced at
the same time that God was trying to talk to me using these lyrics although the
context of the whole song isn’t necessarily from the viewpoint of God.
I believe
God speaks to us all the time. Through the Word, a friend, a movie, a song, a
dream and even a complete stranger (this happened to me years ago and yeah, you
guessed right. I was totally a lil freaked out. lol) Isn’t God so creative
to speak to His children in such different ways?!
There are
other times He speaks to us using repetition. Like, you come across something
related to a particular thing so many times you know it just can’t be
coincidence. For instance, I usually take part in an online Bible study on
twitter and a couple of months back, the book of study was Daniel. When I was
in church that week, scriptures from Daniel were part of the main reference scriptures
read (no, we don’t read Daniel every time in church), and around that time too, I
heard on the radio something about the book of Daniel. If you ask me, this
couldn’t have been coincidental. They occurred around the same period that I
began to ask myself: what is God trying to tell me specifically in this season
of my life from the book of Daniel? I thought through it and came to the wonderful
understanding that I might be going through tough stuff which may look
overwhelming to overcome, but with God by my side, just like He was in the
midst of the fire with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and they stayed alive,
just as He protected Daniel from harm by sending an angel to shut the mouths of
the lions in the den, that is the same way He is going to protect me. I may go
through a fiery furnace or face lions, but I will NOT be harmed. I may
experience very uncomfortable situations, but that’s not going to bring me
down.
I’m oh, so thankful
to God that He thinks about me and cares enough to assure me that whatever
brand of crazy going on in my life, He’s right there with me. He really is. And
that gladdens this sometimes fretting heart of mine. I need to be attentive and
listen to Him all the time so I don’t miss anything. And though I haven’t yet experienced
hearing Him literally speak to me like in the Moses and the burning bush
scenario, (how I can’t wait for this to happen) I appreciate all the other ways
God chooses to speak to me, His beloved. :) Whenever I feel very strongly about
a scripture or convicted about something, I know that’s God right there,
tugging at my heart.
I don’t know
which ways God speaks to you specifically aside the Bible, but I pray that He
opens your heart to figure it out and be guided by His loving instructions
through every season in your life. And I hope that when someone prophesies to
you, you take the time to pray about it yourself to verify if what the person
said was actually from God before taking it in, hook, line and sinker. :) (You
need to be careful with these things.)
No matter
what you’re going through, trust me, I know what pain is. What I go through may
not be exactly what you’re going through but dear one, know that God is there with
you in the midst of it all. Is it present struggles, uncertainties about the
future that leaves you panicking and close to tears? You’ll be just fine. Keep
your head up, and listen to His still, small voice. And just like He was
speaking to me through that song, know that no matter what you’re facing, He is
already there with you. He’s always going to be with us and we shall overcome.
Be
encouraged. xoxo
Delali.
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