Old schooling it.
You know what I realized today... that old old old old OLD school song (for those who grew up in youth group) My All in All. I was in the middle of spending time with Jesus, thinking about how He has carried me through all the broken parts of my life, where everything in my world is shattered to pieces and I am broken on my knees... how He was the strength that carried me through... and for some reason, that song - My all in all, popped into my head. One line of that song goes like -
You are the strength when I am weak,
You are the treasure that I seek,
You are my all in all.
Then I started to realize... man, it is so easy to let Jesus be our strength when we are weak, perhaps, that's why He breaks us so much to remind us just how good He is, that we do need Him. But, shouldn't that song go like, You are the strength when... all the time? Shouldn't Jesus be our strength not just when we are weak, but even when we feel "strong" (come on seriously, when do we really have our acts together and are really "strong" on our own) What I am saying is this, are we treating Jesus as someone we need and rely on just when things are broken, or is He the only option we have to rely on for everything we do and at any time in our lives. That leads to the second line, You are the treasure that I seek... I mean... this is Jesus we are talking about here... OUR SAVIOR.... the One who rescued us when we are dying... and... He is just... a treasure that we seek? When I think of treasure, I think of the first movie of the Pirates of Caribbean, you know that scene where the two pirates got their loot for their years of pirating, all it was was some elegant dress and a nice umbrella, which then they put on to go out into the waters to lure the nice little British soldiers. I don't want to treat Jesus, my Savior who hung on a the cross for my sins, as some measly dress or any treasure I can think of. Jesus is more than any treasure, Jesus is bigger than just some cosmos-Santa Clause that we like to think of Him as sometimes, Jesus is my Savior, my joy, and my life.
If I can rewrite the song, I would change it to:
You are the strength of all of me
You are the Savior that I desperately need
You are my all in all.
I pray that we will all see Jesus as who He really is, a selfless-servant, God-son, that came for the sake of love and rescued us.
one love,
jeff
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