Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Monday 8/31/09)

Today’s Devotional Written By A Young Woman Who Is Not Alone In Her Journey: Tracy Koweh

Will You Be Flying Solo?

Deuteronomy 11:13-14 (New Living Translation)

¹³ “If you carefully obey all the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart and soul, ¹⁴ then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.

Today’s message in the music comes from Maxwell’s hit song “Pretty Wings”. The song has such a beautiful title and melody, that it’s almost impossible to know it’s a sad song. The message of the song is about Maxwell letting the woman go he loves, for her to be able to spread her wings and fly again.

At first glance I didn’t get how this song applied to anything related to God because in the song Maxwell messed up. But then God told me to focus on the chorus:

If I can’t have you, let love set you free to flap your pretty wings. God was saying that sometimes no matter how much love He shows, there will always be some souls He will never win into the kingdom. The thing that I love about My God, is that he has given us free will. He lets us choose to love Him or not. Choose to obey Him or not.

As Christians sometimes we do what we feel and hide under that umbrella of His grace and mercy, but the Bible says its better to be ice cold than lukewarm. God is in a season where He has opened up the windows of heaven and He is pouring unto His children………right at the heart of the world’s recession. The problem is that God is tired of playing the game with some of us.

He is at a point where, if He can’t fully have our hearts, minds, and souls……..He is going to set us free. There is a line in the song where Maxwelll says he has to see how it will truly feel to not have her in his life. For some of us, if it takes losing God completely to find Him again, get ready to call a search team- - -because God is about to do a disappearing act in your life.

Today as we prepare to begin another week, let us abide in the shadow of the most high and truly appreciate all that God has done for us. The Bible says that He’ll never leave nor forsake us, but we can leave Him. So before you lose out on the greatest pilot you’ll ever be blessed to fly with, sit down, strap up and let Him take control. Happy flying.