Forever With You

Last week was not a good week. If you saw my facebook status you'll know what I am talking about. My frame of mind wasn't a great one....

But as I reflected back on the past week as I drove, I was listening to the new Decyfer Down album "Crash" and heard the last song on the CD and it struck me. The words of the chorus are a prayer that I need to pray often (especially during the trials of last week)

The song is called "Forever With You"

Like shooting stars
How brief we are
I wish this moment could last forever
Here with you
I am made new
I want to live like every breath matters
You're not so far away
Just hear me when I say

CHORUS:
I wanna love what you love
I want to see what you see
I want a heart that burns like a fire in me
I want your light in my life
I want my heart renewed
Here I am
Forever with you

The falling rain
Can bring a change
I never knew how far that I could fall
I can hardly wait
'Til I see you face to face
I can't believe your love remains the same
You're not so far away
Just hear me when I say

I wanna love what you love
I want to see what you see
I want a heart that burns like a fire in me
I want your light in my life
I want my heart renewed
Here I am
Forever with you

Now that I am here with you
After all that I've been through
I just can't live without
The grace you gave to me
Now I see what you see
Your beautiful life forever in me

I wanna love what you love
I want to see what you see
I want a heart that burns like a fire in me
I want your light in my life
I want my heart renewed
Here I am
Here I am
Here I am
Forever with you


The words that struck me the most are: I want to love what you love, I want to see what you see.

It also reminds me of two questions that I found in my reading the book "The Ministry of the Missional Church." Those questions are: Where is God already working in the community? and What does God want to do in the community? Without God giving me his love and his eyes, I could never and wouldn't want to see where he is working, and where he wants to work.

So may I have the eyes, the ears, the heart of God for the world.