Why my I-Pod is empty…
this isn’t as much of a post as a train of thought. so welcome to my thoughts right now…
Lately I’ve been praying bold prayers. The kind we all pray when the music is pumping and the moment catches you by surprise. “God take all of me, I want to give you everything I have.” He’s cashing in on my willingness, and I’m forfeiting my rights.
We all have rights. I have the right to listen to secular music. I have the right to watch movies and hang out with my friends hours and hours at a time. I have the right to buy really nice things and schedule time to enjoy those things. But for the sake of Christ, I choose to give up those rights. I should say I’m choosing to give them up. I want to encounter Jesus. I want to be his friend. If I have to give up listening to Wilco, in order to sharpen my attention to hear his voice, then I’m in. If I have to give up watching movies on my day off, for the sake of keeping my heart tender to the Holy Spirit, then I’m in.
I’m a little too honest with myself to make absolute statements, (I know I’m prone to wander) but I’m done with secular music, and movies. Not even just secular music, I’m done with music that doesn’t edify my spirit. Which means even many “christian” bands that talk more about their girlfriends than they do God.
I want my delight and enjoyment found in the heart of the trinity. I want to learn to be satisfied in Christ. I’m posting this to declare to the world before me that I’m finished drinking from broken cisterns, I want the manna from heaven, the river that flows from his throne. Call it what you will, but I’m after his heart.
Not a profound post in terms of literary quality. Just the bare bones, kind of like my I-Pod’s hard drive right now. So many songs gone, so many DJ opportunities out the window with them. However I love Jesus more than all of that. He’s coming back soon, and I want to be ready!
“Taste and See that the Lord is good” I plan to.
okay. you said it – i’ll help you.
Awesome revelation man. Crazy though, in prayer last night someone prayed from Jeremiah 2, about the cisterns, odd I should hear that verse twice in a row. Before He prayed though, I was in Prov 4:23-27:
23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of life.
24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth,
And put perverse lips far from you.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,
And your eyelids look right before you.
26 Ponder the path of your feet,
And let all your ways be established.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;
Remove your foot from evil.
I was going to get up and pray from this passage, when the other guy did…. crazy! Anyway, I’m there with you, while I was in KC God spoke to me about many areas of compromise I was living in, things that I was putting before Him in my life; essentially saying they were more important than him (james 4:4-6).
Anyway, God is doing the same thing in me man, follow hard after Him! Go for it!!
Zach, I admire your boldness. It is way easier said than done, though. But I will be praying for you that you will reach a new level of communion with the Lord and never want to go back to the pleasures of this world!
Oh, by the way. I switched to wordpress. Could you fix my link on your page? And would you mind spelling my name right?
Bates.
Thanks Zack!