| | I was driving down the road the other day and a song came on by a Christian group called Casting Crowns. The song is titled "Slow Fade." The chores of the song was very profound, and the line that has been singing through my head says, "people never crumble in a day, its a slow fade."
Isn't that so true. Very rarely have I ever heard of a Christian who wakes up one morning and just says, you know what, skip you God, I have this covered. Usually its more of waking up one morning and wondering how did i find myself so far away from you? Where did I take that turn that ended me up here? Then you find yourself wrestling, desperately wanting to be back where you once were and fighting against that part of you that says, eh, why bother.
From the outside your life seems the same as it was, but on the inside there is turmoil that nobody can see but God and you. You drive down the road and your heart cries out to God b/c you miss him so much. You miss that peace that He has it under control. You long just to be held by Him and feel his hand moving you, and then knowing all along that he never went anywhere.
What is it that pulls us away so easily? Why does the heart wonder so far so quickly? Why do we wrestle so strongly against God? Where does the slow fade begin?
Life becomes overwhelming and you feel as though you will break. People you love become distant or move away, job demands change, finances become tight....things just change and you wonder how in the world you can handle it all. The truth quickly becomes you can't. And its in that moment that you realize: run home. Run with reckless abandonment.....give back the control you have gradually taken. Find rest again in the peace and knowledge that He has your best at heart.
I don't know where the slow fade begins, I just know it is here, and my heart is wrestling to be home again in God's peace.
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| | Posted 1/20/2009 9:08 PM - 8 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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