Music Monday ~ To God Alone & A Bit of Rambling

Last Monday our first day back to school went rather well, everyone was pleasantly co-operative in completing their lessons and helping out around the house. Then it went rapidly downhill. Long story short, I had an emergency root canal on Tuesday morning, then was back at the dentists on Thursday to have an abscess drained, and have been decked out on pain meds and antibiotics since. Last night was the first night in over a week that I actually went to bed and slept through the night, thank God. So now I am sure you can imagine what our week of schooling was like. Ugh!

Now onto the rambling...on my way to the dentist I had the rare occurrence (since starting homeschooling) of finding myself alone in my truck; I enjoyed a few minutes of a sermon about the end times and Revelations. If you know me at all, you know that prophesy and anything to do with end times fascinates me to no end. :) Anyway, I then turned to K-love, again enjoying this 'me time' even though I was in excruciating pain, and heard this amazing song; the words struck me so deep that I was breathless. On to my root canal and this song playing over in my head the whole time, desperate to remember it, the song name and performer were never mentioned and I needed to hear the song again. Unfortunately by the time I left the office the details of the song had been replaced with a 'to-do' list and I again turned on the radio. This time to hear the very first song I listened to as a new believer almost four years ago...almost four years ago...this song, (which I will share next week for Music Monday) should have broken the cd player in my car at the time because I blasted played that song non-stop for months. This got me thinking, I had not heard the song in such a long time...so much time has passed, such a long time that I can no longer be content. I need to stop sitting here in the same place, saying the same things, making the same excuses; my Lord can undoubtedly no longer be pleased to have me believing that I am a 'baby' Christian, still using that excuse as to why I am not further along in my walk. Why do I not know God's plan for me, why have so many things remained unchanged? Because I have let them remain unchanged. So any way, (I warned you in the title that this was going to be one of those rambling posts!!) fast forward to Thursday and the continued pain...I am again leaving the dentist office, I turn on K-love and guess what song was playing? Yes! The one I heard on my way to the office that day, the lyrics again stopping me in my tracks. All this wondering, studying the book of Esther and talking about destinies added to my wonderment, but how am I to know...if only...God will open my eyes and take me by the hand and break me.



Now for the song, To God Alone, by Aaron Shust.
Thanks for sticking with me friends.



Can you take me by the hand
Can you use me as I am
Break me into who you want me to be

When the time is finally right
Will You open up my eyes
Show me everything you want me to see
This life is not my own

Chorus:
To God alone be the glory
To God alone be the praise
Everything I say and do
Let it be all for you
The glory is yours alone

Yours alone

Take the offering I bring
You want more than what I sing
Can I give you every part of me

Turn these pennies into gold
Take this life I call my own
Until I'm after your heart
I'm needing to let go

Chorus

We will rise and we will fall
But you remain after all
You're glorious and beautiful

So beautiful

Chorus