Have Thine Own Way....

I love hymns. I can still remember clutching the pew and singing loudly. I don't know what it is about getting older, but the truths of these songs keep getting sweeter and richer to me all the time.

This morning in our worship time we sang the chorus of the hymn "Have Thine Own Way".  I couldn't help but be overwhelmed with how often we live our lives with this sentiment phrase on our lips, but really in our hearts we finish the phrase with ".....as long as it easy and costs me nothing."

"Have Thine Own Way" - The words this morning are so contradictory to what we as a culture and a people live.  We want everything to fall into place for our benefit. I couldn't help but look at my own life and wonder if He is truly having His way.

"Thou Art the Potter, I am the Clay" - This is one of my favorite metaphors. He is crushing, shaping, and molding me into His will and plan, I don't mold Him. I don't change Him. I don't reinvent Him into something that is a little more convenient to the way I want to live my life.

"Mold me and make me after Thy will" -  I believe this gives Him license to change us. Freedom to make us vessels that He can use for His glory and not our own.

"While I am waiting, yielded and still" - I find it so interesting how difficult it is to be "quiet" before the Lord, to be still and listen to Him, yielding ourselves to His plans and His leading.  There are always so many distractions, so many reasons not to be still, not to listen, not to wait for Him.  Some of them are valid and sometimes we are just lazy.

This morning I was refreshed and sang as loud as I could....some things never change.