Not Here

Ecclesiastes 3:11
New Living Translation (NLT)
11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.


Surrounded by Your glory, what will my heart feel
Will I dance for You Jesus or in awe of you be still
Will I stand in Your presence or to my knees will I
fall
Will I sing hallelujah, will I be able to speak at all
I can only imagine
I can only imagine by Mercy Me

I am learning something. I feel as if God is teaching me that things on this earth are so temporary. You can have them one moment and in another moment they can be taken from your grasp. Is this a bad thing? I don't believe so. You see I was in praise team at my old church since I was in seventh grade. I attended that church even before I was born. Anyway, we make a decision to leave. The title praise team leader was removed from my grasp. I was kinda sad. I remember thinking in the past about how long I would be able to stay in praise team. What would I do after? Well I'm at that point. I'm not in it anymore and I'm figuring out what am I supposed to do?

I believe God is teaching me not to be so attached to this world. I mean how many times in the bible does it say not to hold on to earthly things? How many times does it instruct us not to be so attached to this world? WE do not belong to this world. So if I lose an identity. If I lose something I've held onto for so long I shouldn't grieve over it too much. Couldn't it be that God is emptying my hands for something greater and better than being a praise team leader.

Titles, possessions, everything on this earth will fade away, but one thing remains. If I were to lose everything I had or was know for, one thing would remain. If I didn't belong to anything here it would be okay because one thing would remain. I belong to Jesus and my treasures lie in heaven where rust and moths cannot destroy them.

I had this feeling one night that I wasn't going to be here for very long. Where is here? I don't know exactly, but I can trust that God is going to take me where he needs me to be. I can trust that wherever he takes me he needs me there. It's probably not death. It's probably just a new place in my life or a new season. Whatever it is I remain unafraid. I am completely at peace with this and I totally trust God.

Everything is so temporary. I shouldn't hold on to things too tightly. I should focus on God and know that everything else will follow. I should be willing to let go of things so that I can fully embrace what he has in store for me.


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New International Version (©1984)
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.