Lift Up Your Eyes ~ Turn Down The Music

If you were hungry would we give you food?
If you were thirsty would we give you drink?
If you were a stranger would we let you in?
What would be a song we’d sing to you when there in need?
Would it be an empty hallelujah to the king?

Turn down the music
Turn down the noise
Turn up your voice oh God and let us hear the sound
Of people broken, willing to love
Give us your heart oh God a new song rise in us

And if you were naked, would we give you clothes?
If you were an orphan would we give our home?
And if you were in prison, would we visit you?
What would be a song we’d sing to you when there in need?
Would it be an empty hallelujah to the king?

Turn down the music
Turn down the noise
Turn up your voice oh God and let us hear the sound
Of people broken, willing to love
Give us your heart oh God a new song rise in us

Let it be our worth shared
Let it be our true religion
In this world of ?
Holding on to our confessions
Let it be your worth shared
Let it be your true religion
In this world of ?
Holding on to our confessions

Turn down the music
Turn down the noise
Turn up your voice oh God and let us hear the sound
Of people broken, willing to love
Give us your heart oh God a new song rise in 
A new song rise in 
A new song rise in us
~Shane and Shane




God has been tearing open my heart with His grace and His faithfulness.  I've said this before and I will probably say it a million times over...the more I commune with God, the more my heart is broken for those around me.  


When did we become satisfied with the status quo?  When did we start to  think that claiming Christianity and sitting at church each Sunday was embracing our role as a child of God?  As the world around us gets worse and worse, we get more and more complacent.  We have the terrible "saying but not doing" disease, which has chronic symptoms of talking the talk but never acting on what we utter. 


I have found myself so frustrated over the past several weeks.  Frustrated with my inability to embrace the callings I know are on my life.  Discouraged by the standstill I feel I am at.  The question that is written all over my heart is this, "What is a worthy response to the gift of mercy that God has given me?"  Working at a job? Going to school? Being a good wife and friend?  Have we stopped to  think this week, or this month, or even this year - what is God's calling on my life? 

Does our life even come close to equaling the sacrifice that was made on our behalf?