Avalanche

It's odd. I've had so many directions I wanted the go at the end of our happiness study. As I read the final chapters in the book I'm using (How Happiness Happens - Max Lucado) I had a definite "that's it" thought earlier in the week. Then, as God does, my week was predictably unpredictably changed. And the thoughts changed. As I sat down to type this a video is playing. It's by Brandon Lake and it has these lyrics:

"Sometimes you've gotta dance through the darkness

Sing through the fire

Praise when it don't make sense

Sometimes you've gotta stare down the giant

Worship from the lion's den"

And the thoughts changed again. For some reason, I heard these words and an avalanche came to mind.

Have you ever seen the video of the guy on skies racing down the mountain and the avalanche of snow is right on his heels. It's about to swallow him and he keeps going faster and faster and faster. I see this video and I think, how did this guy get here? Will he make it? What would I do if I were him? So much snow.

Our last topic is love. So many verses in the scripture on love. But thinking about avalanches and Stradivari (you gotta come to hear this one) and the lyrics above, this is the verse I will use as our key verse, Eph 2:10. "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." We like this verse. It's comfortable. It's happy. Especially the first part. Have you ever looked at the last part? What if we're the guy on the mountain? What if it isn't snow engulfing us but the world? There's a lot of hate. Indifference. Uncertainty. Fear. What if our happiness isn't about "our" happiness? What if God put you here, in this mess of a world, at this time in history, to be the light it needs? What if 1 John 4:11 was the only verse we ever memorized?

See ya tomorrow!