Going Through the Motions?

Over the last couple of days, I’ve been trying hard to be still, keep quiet, and absorb some Truth.

God has really been challenging me to KEEP IT REAL… put my “money where my mouth is”, so to speak.  (And if you know me… you know my mouth is usually running!) :-)

Since music is SUCH a big part of my life (and my worship) it’s only fitting that a song would wreck me.  As I was driving to work yesterday morning, this is the tune that He used…

This might hurt, it's not safe
But I know that I've gotta make a change
I don't care if I break,
At least I'll be feeling something
'Cause just okay is not enough
Help me fight through the nothingness of life
I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"
No regrets, not this time
I'm gonna let my heart defeat my mind
Let Your love make me whole
I think I'm finally feeling something
'Cause just okay is not enough
Help me fight through the nothingness of this life
'Cause I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"

I couldn’t stop crying.  All day long. Even now as I re-read these lyrics, tears come to my eyes. 

God, don’t let all this be for nothing…

Make me real. 

Prove that I am not a fake. 

Work in me!!

I don’t want to go through the motions!!!

Take me all the way…

I want to SHINE for YOU!!