So this weekend I was thinking about last words. We hear the expression “famous last words” often throughout our lives. From time to time we might even imagine the reality of our fleeting lives and think about the last words we said or would wish to say to our family and those that mean the most to us. I’ve lived enough at this point in my thirty one years to have had some different phases, stages or let’s call them seasons in my short lifetime. Serving God is truly a journey that we’re on. I’ll be honest I’m glad that it is a journey that I don’t know all the details to (that takes alot for a self-proclaimed control freak to admit! 🙂 Thankfully God reveals to us the steps we need to take for this part of the journey we’re on. I don’t exactly know where I’ll end up when I’m one hundred years old and that’s ok. I’m excited about listening to God’s voice and following Him for the steps and seasons that will lead me to one hundred. I’m trusting Him.
Five years ago I ended a season of my life and my last words on that stage were words that I’m pretty proud were the last words I got to share with that audience. So much of what I get to share with others is through the songs I sing. It was a song by Tim Hughes called “Everything” (It’s awesome. If you don’t know it check it out here http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/everything/id323390198?i=323390215 )
God in my living
There in my breathing
God in my waking
God in my sleeping
God in my resting
There in my working
God in my thinking
God in my speaking
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
God in my hoping
There in my dreaming
God in my watching
God in my waiting
God in my laughing
There in my weeping
God in my hurting
God in my healing
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Christ in me
Christ in me
Christ in me the hope of glory
You are everything
You are everything
You are everything
You are everything
Jesus everything
Jesus everything
Jesus everything
Jesus everything
Tim Hughes
©2005 Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing)
So fast forward alot of life lived. New seasons that began. New steps, adventures and parts to the journey. It’s time for a chapter to close and something new to open. This time again, I’m humbled and grateful for the last words I got to have. This time by Chris Tomlin and his uber popular song “Our God”:
Our God is greater
Our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is healer
Awesome in power our God, our God
If those are to be my famous last words then I’m feeling good about it. I want my life to reflect the greatness of our God and the amazing love that He gives to us. Whatever season you are in and whatever journey you are on make it count. Think about your last words and the impact they can make. So, onward Christian soldiers let’s continue marching on. Our God is greater, stronger and higher than any other!