"This is Your Life" by Switchfoot

I'm giving this blog thing a serious try.

I'm continuing my pattern from previous blogs, so I'll have a "song of the day" for every post I make.

I've chosen "This is Your Life" by Switchfoot, as my first "Song of the Day" because I feel it captures these past five weeks as I've adjusted to college life. The song asks "Are you who you want to be?" and for the first time in a long time I can say, "I am closer than ever."

I've never felt better about myself than I do now. I'm not just saying, but doing. I'm being (more) extraverted, like I have never been before. I'm going to the gym every day (with few exceptions), and I'm loving my classes (especially Old Testament with Dale Manor), but even more than that I've really begun to delve into the Word of God, and I'm really starting to feel it being written on my heart. For example:

Recently I was reading through Matthew and one of the Beattitudes really hit me hard. Matthew 5:5 reads "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." What struck me was the term 'meek'.

I thought about a joke I had once heard that even if the meek didn't inherit the earth they aren't going to complain to anyone. They are too meek for that. I also considered something my youth minister once said to me, that meekness doesn't mean weakness.

He told us that Jesus was meek, because He was complient to God. Jesus had the power to prevent His capture, His torture, and His eventual crucifixion on the cross, but He didn't use it, because He was meek in respect to the Father's will.

(According to the account in John) When Jesus was told, "We are looking for Jesus of Nazareth!" He said to the detachment of soldiers (Thought to number nearly 500 men) "I am he," and at that the men fell down. He was proving to them that at a word He could be free, yet He let them take Him.

(In Matthew it reads) "Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?" he said to his disciples, but he quickly follows his statement of ability with one of meakness, "But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way," and so he was taken away.

He was meak, powerfully meak. All this to say, thats what I'm seeking to do, to use my gifts for God's will, not to boast in them, or defend myself with them, but to use my talents to glorify God. So from now on I will do my best to be one of the meak, that is who I want to be.

-Matthew