I shared on Instagram last night a little part of a song and lyric video I wrote years ago called Take Me In. Although all my songs are deeply honest – really just extensions of my prayer journals – this one is incredibly vulnerable as it describes that painful place of realizing that we are just not where we were with God or where we want to be at all anymore.
“I am stoic in my prayers…I sing like You’re not there…”
Have you ever been there?
“I’m not just gonna stand here any longer, with my arms crossed and my pain as my defense…I am gonna lift my arms until You lift me, You can have me, whatever there is left.”
Have you ever been this desperate?
(I think desperation can be our best friend, even though we.hate.it.so.much.)
“I’ll come as far as I know how, then I will wait for You to take me in, take me in…”
(God’s Word says again and again that when we come humbly before Him, He happily takes it from there.)
Praise the LORD!
God is the God of this moment. What if we really believed that?
God is a God of grace. What if we really believed that?
God is the Lover of our souls and the Father to the prodigal. What if we really believed that?
What if we believed new mercies and new manna were ready for us each morning for the taking?
Can we be still for a moment and let Him take us in?
He is waiting with open arms, before we figure out our problems, before we figure out why we strayed, before we have a plan to do better next time.
We can drop these things and run.
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!!!
*You can find this lyric video on YouTube at LyndsayTaylorMusic*
