Sing a New Song...

I have not written in my journal for two days now. We have been busy helping to set up the site, meeting community members, shopping for work supply items, and getting to know the Tony, Amanda and Anna. It has been great doing all these things, but I miss journaling because it helps me to process the day’s activities and what they really mean to me. I know I may not have time to journal during the week once the participants are here, so that is why I’m doing this everyday now since we do have time. Once the youth and adult leaders get here we will be going from 6:30am to 12:00pm. We made a covenant as a team that lights go out for the participants at 11:00 then for the team no later than 12:00. I can’t imagine going through the whole summer with those hours, well I guess I actually can because I did this last year :).

Today’s devotion was on singing a new song taught by Christ. He is the great composer of the song that we will be sharing with those around us. The song of hope and glory of what He has done for us. It’s a song of triumph that Christ has taken all our burdens, all our hurts, all our needs and made them His own. As we serve and love Him, He is adding to the lyrics and verses. He is composing a song that will be sung by the saints and angles….It is interesting how God coordinates and brings things together. Tonight, after dinner, the team was going through the songs that Amanda is going to be playing for our “club” time. Club time is a time of worship and prayer. We must of sat here for two hours going over songs we are going to share with the youth. We ran across “There is no one like you” which so reminded me of worship class and Dr. Gould would start of with 1 Chronicles 17:20 "There is no one like you, O LORD, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. This is in the middle of a prayer by David right after God made a covenant with David. David went before the Lord and simply stated that he was not worthy of all the blessing that God had bestowed on him. David is humbled at what the Lord is doing and recognizes that there is much more to the Lord than what we know are even can fathom. God is powerful, God is mighty, God is gracious, God is magnificent and God is so much more than anything we can imagine.

I’m really just in awe at the blessings he has given to me. He has blessed me with a wonderful family, with great friends, with a Godly woman as a girlfriend, and with just an awesome team this summer. I get so much encouragement from all the people in my life and the good news is God is in the middle of all these relationships. Isn’t God good?