{ awake, my soul. you were made to meet your Maker. : ] }

these song lyrics, by mumford and sons, inspired me tonight. I love how some songs can do that. they pause reality, blur the hands of the clock, and cause my mind to race with new thoughts, new ideas. I love being able to connect with music from the first note played or the first verse that is sung, and I love hearing God speak to me through the lyrics, pulsing new blood through my veins and fresh air through my lungs.

{ where you invest your love, you invest your life.

awake my soul, awake my soul.
you were made to meet your Maker.

awake my soul, awake my soul.
you were made to meet your Maker. }

we were created to live, not merely exist. we were created to feel, and in every way imaginable. we were created in our Maker’s image; fashioned to love with everything within us and experience pain and heartbreak. we were created to be inspired and to inspire others, and to be challenged, pressed, and pushed by tragedies and circumstances, so that we can do nothing more than cling to our Savior and pursue the greatness He has called us to.

we were meant to be awakened. out of the dust and nothingness we were formed, in the likeness of an Everlasting King. His Spirit was placed within us, and He covered us with skin, bones, and flesh, providing a temporary dwelling to be a tangible expression and image of His love on this earth. in our souls, He placed a desire for Himself; so that we might reach back and take hold of His outstretched hand, and no longer have to blindly stumble as we complete our journey on this earth.

we were created to commune with our Heavenly Abba; to seek out His mysteries, ask questions, and cultivate a bond with Him that not anything on heaven or earth, including death, can sever. He created a wondering in our souls, so that we might come to Him in our confusion and despair.  He created a longing within our heart, a longing that only can be truly satisfied in Him.

it is His unconditional, relentless, unfailing love that stirred within me, and awakened my heart to desire something more. something real. something eternal. I abandoned my old life of seeking after my own comfort, and became a new creation in Him. I may stray, stumble, or become distracted on this journey, but His ever-present kindness, and gentle, reassuring voice is always there to guide me home.

He desires to awaken our souls. He longs to meet us, talk with us, and carry us as we become one with Him. He invites us to dwell in His secret place, to abide in His presence. He calls us beautiful. He calls us beloved. He calls us friend.

His love, and life, has been invested in us; in our past, present, and future. He calls us to respond, by investing our lives in Him, and our love into the world around us; as we bring the Kingdom of Heaven to earth.

{ but when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. therefore it says, “awake, o sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” – ephesians 5:13-14. }

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