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How could I forget that You’ve always been the King of the World?

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Psalm 47:1-2

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most high is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.

Natalie Grant’s song “King of the World” is a constant play in my mind, and so is the question she asks “How could I forget that You’ve always been the King of the World?” Well it’s easier than you think. I get my mind focused on life in the Shari realm, and the abilities or lack thereof and suddenly the power of the Holy Spirit takes a back seat. The very fact that God spoke the world into existence is not forgotten but it is so overshadowed by my own inadequacies and negative thoughts that consume me and after I put God inside of a box, He honors my free thinking all the way to captivity.

How much of this thinking factors into our unachieved goals?  I’m am indeed a leap and the net will appear gal until a negative word from my own mind or someone else’s mouth enters into the action I’m about to take and all of sudden I forget Who gave me the thought in the beginning. The Creator of the universe Who spoke oceans and land, formed man from a ball of dirt and made critters so numerous in species it blows our mind is the same Creator Who placed the creative thinking inside of me. But I forgot.

God reminded me of this yesterday when I was having a conversation with Him and in complete randomness He said “Be prepare to give an answer to someone who asks.” I wrote it down in my journal and forgot it, thinking… who really cares what I think. I had been volunteered (actually volentold) by my daughter for an art project in our public schools and I went obediently. I was ushered into a room with scissors, papers, glue and young moms and was ready to begin our project. But before I could begin, one of the mom’s said, I’m so glad you’re here! I have a spiritual question to ask you.

“How could I forget that You’ve always been the King of the World?”

It wasn’t a great theological question, it was a question as simple as the day is long and every bit as unanswerable.

“How do I answer my child when they ask, who created God.”

My first thought was oh, my goodness. He did what He said He would.

My second thought was, “God, You knew I couldn’t answer her question, except to say, you simply tell them God has always been and when we get to Heaven we’ll find out more about God.”

His response to me was, “So why do you think you know more than me, when I place ideas in your mind and you don’t believe they’re possible.

“How could I forget that You’ve always been the King of the World?”

Now you understand why that song plays in my head. It’s actually a very good song to be stuck there. Here it is, and I hope this will prompt you not to question God when He puts crazy ideas in your head too.

https://youtu.be/4K7kplxNM48

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Canaries and Crows: Natalie Grant and the Media

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Crow and Canary, Street Art in Downtown Los Angeles

“We left the Grammy’s early. I’ve many thoughts, most of which are probably better left inside my head. But I’ll say this: I’ve never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. And I’ve never been more sure of the path I’ve chosen.”

 Natalie Grant tweeted those words and then the media sang… only not like canaries, more like the obnoxious sound a crow makes. (Cawl, cawl, cawl)… so I’m going to take their advice and “call” it like I see it. American media (for the most part) is a biased, one sided, self-promoting group of people in the hands of Satan. Harsh? Yea, I guess. But I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with Christians being bashed for taking a stand on the side of morality. In the nineteenth century, leading newspapers reported from a Christian perspective. Today, however, journalists increasingly take an anti-Christian stance while claiming to be neutral. I’m wondering how colleges and universities now define the word neutral. According to Merriam Webster it is defined as – :  not engaged on either side; specifically :  not aligned with a political or ideological grouping <a neutral nation>:

This doesn’t sound like any of the media I’ve heard recently. More arguably the new definition of neutral is Liberal neutrality, which is the idea that the liberal state should not promote any particular ‘conception of the good’. Meaning I assume in my simplistic mind that “everyone’s idea of good is right.”

Oh yea… that’ll work.

As a music lover, and believing that the origin of music was designed by God and for God, what many call music today I call noise. But I don’t begrudge them their right to listen to it, I just don’t get it. And I don’t have to, it’s their life. So when the Grammy’s decide to dole out awards for varying music styles, I expect there to be music that I don’t particularly like recognized. And that’s okay. I didn’t watch the Grammy’s by the way, but I was interested in a particular group who were in the running, Dailey and Vincent, so I got up Monday morning looking for results, only to find article after article bashing Natalie Grant for having the audacity to stand for what she believed in.

If you didn’t watch the Grammy’s and don’t know the controversy it included a gay wedding on stage officiated by Queen Latifah and  performances deemed “risqué” that were not “child appropriate” by Beyonce and her husband. So as a Christian artist, Natalie Grant walked out because she was offended. But according to our “neutral” media she’s not entitled to her opinion, only theirs. And the question music lovers on both sides of the argument should be asking the Grammy Association is “What did any of that nonsense have to do with the artistry of music?” All it served to do was take the attention away from what the Grammy’s are supposed to recognize which is talent. So please don’t try to tell anyone that someone there wasn’t promoting their own agenda, not music.

So… what does God think of all this?

Romans 1:22-32 ~  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Stand on Miss Natalie. God is watching.