Yeshua

Hello “Not About Us’ listeners! I apologize to you, that this blog section of the website, has been neglected for some time. When Scott and I started the “Not About Us” website I had plans of being a little more regular in discussing what was going on with us and the podcast here. I also like being able to share my love for God in this form as I enjoy writing about how He has moved in my life. I can’t promise that I am going to be able to keep up with more frequent blogs, as I am rather busy with work, family, and my own Revelation studies, but I do hope to find the time to write more blogs about my love for God and how God has loved us more often.

For this blog, I am sharing with you a poem? a song? Honestly, I do not know what to call it. Before work and during my lunch break yesterday, I had this tune in my head and I wrote some lyrics to it. Do you ever have that happened to you? You have some tune in your head and you start making up some lyrics to it. Usually when I do this, the lyrics are silly little nonsensical tunes that go away as quickly as I think them up. This time was different though. It might have been because I was thinking about my past and the events that have gotten me to where I am now, but I decided to write them down. I wrote them down quick, and as far as I know I am not much of a writer, but when I was done, I felt an urge to share it. That is when I remember that Scott and I have a website all about our Awesome God! So, here it is. I hope you enjoy. I have called it “Yeshua”.

“Yeshua”

From a distance, I hear You calling my name

It hurts me to say I have forgotten Your song

That harmony that we used to sing

But try as I might, I can’t remember the tune

All the same, I am making my way back to You

This path to You, it seems so long

and battle after battle I must be strong

Still, I am making my way back to You

Now, I find I am just not the same

Yet I start to question,

Is this the whole point of this game…

I feel an energy come over me

Power that is hard to explain

I know it’s not mine

But all the same,

I share in the wonder of Your

Glorious Name

Not too far now, I hear You calling my name

I feel the guilt of forgetting Your song

And that harmony that we used to sing

But by Your might, I start to recall the tune

And now the race is on

I am making my way back to You

Through the haze, I can remember this phase

I have stood here before to many times to count

So many times, I ran the race

Only to find,

The giant in my way

He wants me to remember my guilt

And to remember my shame

But something is different this time,

A change of heart?

I hear Your voice as You say to me

Remember My song, remember the Cross

It is all about Forgiveness and Grace for you, for all

You are so close to me now, You are calling my name

The guilt is gone, and I can hear Your song

And that harmony, I join in and hum

All by Your might, I remember the tune

I have finished the race

I have made it back to You

I come as I am and fall to my knees

Covered in scars, will You see past my disgrace

Will You teach me that tune that I used to know

And together, forever, we can make it sing

That’s when I see the truth of it all,

The truth that I should have known

Compared to You the giants are small

I now seem to know that You were never distance at all

I convinced myself that you were so far away

My guilt and my shame, they kept me in the darkness

I see the path that I used to walk

Step by step until I was five thousand miles apart

If only I had known to turn back to see

You are standing there just waiting for me

Five thousand miles away I went

All the same, because of Your song

It’s only one step back to You

I have made here, You say my name

By Your sacrifice I can now sing the song

A song of love, of grace, of peace

A song of forgiveness and a song of praise

So now I sing to share with all

A song so beautiful and a song,

that is All About You

You taught me the tune that I used to know

And together, forever, we will make it sing

Okay, I hope you enjoyed whatever that was. Real quick, I want to mention that this poem? song? started out with “From a distance” but I know the truth that God is not distant at all. He is here with us all the time. However, there was a time when I did think that God was at a distance from me and it took a while for me to realize that He was not. I was being distant from Him. I see some of my growth and understanding in this poem. There is classic song that states, “God is watching us, from a distance”. It was Scott who first made me think about that and how it is not true at all. I guess what I am saying is, if you feel like God is at a distance from you, then maybe you need to look at your own path. If you feel like you have traveled to far away from Him, then I would encourage you to look back and see that He is right there waiting for you. The truth is, we may walk five thousand miles away from Him, but it only takes one step to be back with Him.

As always, I am thankful for, and I am praying for our listeners and ask God to bless anything they do that brings Him glory. This is “Not About Us”!