” You can take the world, Just give me you”
Lately I have been listening to this song by Tim Hughes. One of the lines in it is ” You can take the word, Just give me you”. This needs to be our hearts cry and as of late has become mine. This line has been permeating my spirit. I see the world and the things it has to offer, even as a christian, and none of that matters without Him. None of these things can quench what my soul is crying out for.
I have many desires in my heart and my life. Things I want to see, do, and become. However these lay by the side when compared to God and how much I just want him. I dont care If I ever get married ( i do want to!), I dont care how much money I will have, all that matters is that I have Him in my life.
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Now dont take this out of context and stop working, stop eatting and sit in your room and say I want God and God alone. Hear my heart in this. It is saying that nothing else matters… how good or bad things may be, nothing matters but being in His presence.
There is another line of the song that says, The world is not enough for me. I love this line. As I read and as i pray and worship and get closer to God, the things of the world seem not to matter, and the things the world has to offer is not enough. There is a deeper cry, a deeper craving in my spirit, in my heart, for something more. It is something that this world can not offer me. Its fellowship with Him.
I have come to a point in my life… long waiting.. where I have truly felt this desire and craving in my life. I use to ask myself how will I overcome this or that. Well when you experience this…this…. this total abandonment to God, you begin to have new hope and new confidence, and even though you will go thru tough times, and you will go thru things that may seem insurmountable, you know that you WILL get thru it. You know that you have stepped into a new grace..a new freedom..a new chapter in your life where you can reach the things you thought you never could. Where the impossible becomes possible, and you begin to walk into the life God has for you.
If you are having a hard time in life. Things seem to weigh you down and overwhelm you, I want you to begin to ask God for help. Not just saying please help me Amen… But pray to God that you dont want to be in the same spot going thru the same things… that you want to truly experience the presence of God… that you want your life turned upside down… He will do it.
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This song holds a lot of meaning for me. We sung it at an evening service I attended while my life was going up in flames. A wildfire had started near my home and my family was staying in a hotel waiting to see where this fire took its course. During our wait I went to church where I heard this song for the first time. I remember standing there singing, “you can take the world, just give me you” and thinking, even if our home burns down and everything in it, it didn’t matter because I had Jesus. And I know that He would look after us and supply our needs. There truly is no better thing in this world than Him.
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