Our Happy Home...

Well it is almost here. The season premier of our lovely addiction. Smallville. In preparing for the up and coming first episode of the fifth season of this superhero's life, I watched a few episodes from the last season. I wanted to catch up on a few things that I may have forgotten about or perhaps just to rekindle the fires of addiction. I watched the last disk which included the last three episodes. After watching the last episode and being left at the killer cliff hanger I could not wait until this Thursday when everything would be revealed and questions would finally be answered. After I watched the last few I decided I would start over and watch from the beginning and just check out a few in between. I started at episode one. It begins with our superhero - with whom for some reason I greatly relate to - returning to Smallville via a lightning storm and he gets found by Lois. When Mom finally finds him at the hospital and takes him home she asks him where he had been. He replies with, "I was in a place that felt like home." WOW!
The David Crowder Band just put out their new album called A Collision. It's great you should go and buy it. There is a song on there called Our Happy Home. The words to the chorus are this...

Jerusalem our happy home, Would God I were in thee
Would God my woes were at an end
Thy joy that I might see

Ok, let us assume for a moment that Jerusalem isn't just heaven but simply the presence of God. There are so many times that for some reason or another we find ourselves wondering where God is. Has he left us? Did we leave him? We have always been told that God would never "leave" us. This is true to some extent. He will never leave us alone and leave us unprotected. But at the same time, if he moves somewhere else, wanting us to move there too, we will not experience his true grace until we put whatever it takes aside to get to where he wants us to be. At times, and actually at this time, this song is much of how I feel and I am sure others the same. Our happy home, I wish to God I could be there. How we long to be in the fellowship of God. I wish to God my woes were at an end. We wish so many times that all of our probelms and all of our issues would be out of the way so we could get to God. Many times those trials are there for a reason. They make us grow, they build character in us and they give us the opprotunity to give praise where praise is due. Without Christ, how would we get through things that we do?
When finally we break though to where God wants us to be, to where we need to be, then he restores the joy of His salvation. That road at times can be a long and stressful and rough journey. I'm saying this to you aswell as myself. In all of my strength and the powers that God has given me, I must realize that I can not do this alone. I need him and I need you. We need each other to hold each other accountable and to lift each other up. Just as much as you need me to fight for you and encourage you, I need the same. Thank you for doing that. Live a life worthy of the calling that you have recieved. Although you might not know exactly what you are supposed to do, you know what you can do now. We can not all be superheros, teachers, doctors, singers, or pastors but we all have a mission in Christ. Keep pushing and just trust him that he will provide all you need. He has done and continues to do it for me. Rescue is coming...
...See you in the clouds...