I hope you all have had a chance to read and think about those lyrics. That song is so powerful. Its been out for a while but it hits really deep in my life. What kind of motions do we as Christians go through?
1. Go to Church
2. Pray for meals
3. Group Bible Study
4. Take Communion
5. Campus Crusade or other similar meetings
There are plenty of things that we do that can be considered motions. If those motions don't mean anything they just become empty actions. Worthless. How often do we sit in a church service and let it go in one ear and out the other? How often do we say the same prayer at every meal. Its almost like we have a Christian checklist. As long as we do these things, "motions," the rest of our lives are fine.
At first you just do whatever you want and you go through your motions and life goes on. But it wears on you. It begins to widdle away at your core, your very being. That is an empty life. We are not called to passive lives. God wants us to dive in head first and take chances. We have to be willing to put things on the line and live by faith and not by our own will. God's will is perfect and ours full of flaws.
I used to worry a lot about money. The funny things is that I don't make much money even now, and I have more bills than I did in my undergrad. But, I tithe. I'm not trying to tell you that God gives you an abundance of money when you become an Christian. What I can say is that I have an unexplainable financial stability. I don't have a bunch of money left over, but I live comfortably and I can pay my bills. Just a simple act of obedience has made such a difference in my life.
In the same way we called to "Go and make disciples." However you choose to do that is up to you. If you want to introduce people to God at work or if you are called to teach in China or Congo, we are not called to be bubble Christians. People in college are so impressionable, and they remember everything. What do you want people to remember about you. Many people have memories of me that involve drunken nights and wasting time. The people in the later times of my college career have memories that are much more in line with God and they remember a life that was well put together.
A friend of mine put it best the other day when we were talking. "Don't live a life, you're not proud of." or as Matthew West puts it, don't go through the motions, live with no regrets.
Thanks for reading.
This song is so great. It describes many of my feelings throughout school. Read it, Medidate on it, and Pray. Its great.
This might hurt, it's not safe
But I know that I've gotta make a change
I don't care if I break,
At least I'll be feeling something
'Cause just okay is not enough
Help me fight through the nothingness of life
I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"
No regrets, not this time
I'm gonna let my heart defeat my mind
Let Your love make me whole
I think I'm finally feeling something
'Cause just okay is not enough
Help me fight through the nothingness of this life
'Cause I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
[ Matthew West Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
instead of going through the motions?"
take me all the way (take me all the way)
take me all the way ('cause I don't wanna go through the motions)
take me all the way (I know I'm finally feeling something real)
take me all the way
I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"
I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
without Your all consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,
"What if I had given everything,
instead of going through the motions?"
take me all the way (take me all the way)
take me all the way (I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go)
take me all the way (through the motions)
take me all the way
I don't wanna go through the motions
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