As we are patiently awaiting for our precious little one I have learned that I need to be more alert to what is going on in the world and around me. Before I never really listened to the world around me. I have learned to listen as God as created so much beauty in this world. I have also learned that some of the answers I am looking for are right in front of me and I only would of know the answer sooner if I would have opened my eyes.
Every time I have turned on the radio the last two weeks weather in the car or at home this song is either starting to play or is playing. The first two times I thought nothing about it but the third time I started thinking it is a little odd. The fourth time I realized God must be trying to tell me something. The fifth time I listened hard as I wasn't getting what he was trying to tell me. The sixth, seventh and so on...I still wasn't exactly sure what he was trying to say. This time I really listened and decided if I can't figure it out on my own I better try to figure it out. So I read some verses form the bible and still couldn't figure it out. I went to the internet and look over the lyrics to see if I could figure it out. Still nothing. So I decided I would look up more info on the song and found this.
LISTEN TO THE SOUND: THE STORY BEHIND"wHERE I BELONG"
03.24.2011
“Where I Belong” was written out of the thought process of “where is our home”? If there was a theme to my life over the last year it would be “this place is not our home”.
Why would I say that? Well, because in the last couple of years I’ve watched a lot of people I respect make major mistakes that had a huge impact on their lives.
Why would people who have everything choose to do things that destroy the blessing they live under? The more I think about it, the more I realize that the “good life” just doesn’t exist here on earth. Nothing we have, earn, are given, or could buy will ever keep us from desiring something more. This is proven by the people who have it all but give it all away in an effort to get more.
It was echoed in my own life as I began to realize that I wasn’t so different from the people who had made such huge mistakes. We’re always in a fight to remember why we exist and where we belong. It’s an all out war to stay on the path. If you and I think we’re above the BIG mistakes, we’re kidding ourselves.
This song reminds me that some day the work that God began in me will be completed. In the meantime it reminds me to say “take this world and give me Jesus”. When I live by that phrase, everything is different and suddenly the things I think I need become worthless. The coolest thing about this song is the comfort that it has brought to a lot of people as they’ve had to face our greatest fear in life: death. A song that I wrote about how to live has also become a song of assurance for many people close to us. We hope it serves as a reminder to all. This world is not our home. In the arms of our Creator is where we belong.
-Jason
This is where I found something that could make sense with why God keeps playing this song every time I turn the radio on. In the last paragraph it say "This song reminds me that some day the work of God began in me will be complete. In the meantime it reminds me to say "take this world and give me Jesus". Then the lyrics "So when the walls come falling down on me and when I'm lost in the current of a raging sea I have this blessed assurance holding me.
Our latest prayers have been about God helping us to find a way to come up with the $4,000 we need to pay for the rest of our adoption. We also pray for the baby, future foster children, their birth parents, giving us the patients to continue to wait and what is his calling for us in the lives of these kids. We have also been praying that we want to be able to glorify him in with the adoption and the foster kids we will care for. I realized that God's work is being done everyday as he his growing and creating paths with each and every kid to place them in our lives at the most perfect time. That through them they show us Gods work and through us we are able to teach them about God. God is using us for these children and that is his calling for us and until his work is done with us and these children it is my job to show them Jesus. When these kids come to us their lives are in the middle of the raging sea and it is our job to show them they have the blessed assurance of God holding onto them. It also applies to us as we wait for our adoption. There are days when I feel like I am almost drowning lost at sea and I'm only being held up by one tiny thread. My problem is that I forget that the one tiny thread that is holding me out of the water is God. Most importantly I forget to glorify him.
"Where I Belong" By Building 429
Sometimes it feels like I'm watching from the outside
Sometimes it feels like I'm breathing but am I alive
I won't keep searching for answers that aren't here to find
All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong
So when the walls come falling down on me
And when I'm lost in the current of a raging sea
I have this blessed assurance holding me.
All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong
When the earth shakes I wanna be found in You
When the lights fade I wanna be found in You
All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong
All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong
Where I belong, where I belong
Where I belong, where I belong
Your love, Oh, Lord reaches to the heavens. Your faithfulness stretches to the sky!! Thank you Jesus!
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