Give me your heart, give me your soul, Come to to the fountain - you can be satisfied. There’s a peace, there’s a love, you can get lost inside. Come to the fountain & let me hear you testify - NEEDTOBREATH (Testify)

We hold back, we hang on, we cling, we shrink from giving everything we know, we feel, we “need”. 

Each breath is a gift. Each time we lay our heads on our pillows for the night, our breath is in God’s hands.

We may not wake to see the morning light. But each day that we do, and open our eyes to the light of another day, God’s goodness is displayed. He has sustained us. He has kept us through the night. Protected us, gave us each pulsing beat of our heart. Each beautiful breath inhaled is something that we are never sure of. We do not know when it will be taken. We do not know how long our lease on life is.

But yet we hold back. We say, “I can do this better than you, God”.

My friend, there’s no time to be holding back now. There’s no time for sitting on the fence. For saying, “Maybe tomorrow. Today I have PLANS. God, I’m not ready today.”

Can you hear the earth groan? The earthquakes, floods, fires, disasters - nature is groaning under the curse of sin. It’s taking its toll. 

Can you see the upheaval of the world? As the darkness becomes denser and the light grows dimmer? As morality is destroyed, innocence is lost, purity is blackened.

Dear soul, don’t hold back, even 10%.

Your heart and soul must be given, unconditionally, completely, 100%

So what are you waiting for?

Make sure you have surrendered. Make sure you know where you stand. Be sure that you are secure.

When the winds blow and the persecution comes, you won’t be able to rely on your knowledge, your own decisions, or your own feelings. Then it will be God’s law, His infallible truth, His morality that stands the test and comes through victorious.

Once you discover God’s heart, once you discover His purity, His truth, His Laws (and Commandments) - then you will realize that ANYTHING you know is absolutely nothing. It doesn’t matter. It can’t even attempt to illuminate the recesses of the grand scheme of things.  

Only through God’s spirit, His grace and power, and His love can we hope to get through the future.

Then we will have a song, we will have a peace, we will have a love, a firmness of decision that no one - no height nor depth nor any other thing can separate us from God.

——  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39 ———