🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

My childhood Sunday School teachers told me Jesus loves me, and I took them at their word. I was baptized at ten-years old, never wondering if the grass was greener anywhere else.

I was barely 22 when I walked into my first graduate-level seminary class: Gospels at 8am. I imagined falling more in love with Jesus, plain and simple. My professor had another objective. His goal was to deconstruct unsubstantiated beliefs and require rebuilding them on a sure foundation that could weather every storm. This was where I learned to grapple with God, contend with principalities, and come through both mountains and valleys with plunder.

I couldn't be more grateful for my fire-tested faith. I've needed it! And I have great respect for people who have faced the music in their own lives and still come out singing - like David. No one traversed higher highs and lower lows than the shepherd-king who went down in history as "a man after God's own heart". David knew his destiny many, many years before it was fulfilled. In fact, life went the extreme opposite direction after he was anointed as king of Israel. Yet he sings... "I waited patiently for the Lord, and he turned to me... He brought me up from a desolate pit... He put a new song in my mouth..." (Psalm 40:1,2,3)

Dark days, deconstructed expectations, and utter incapacitation can become the place of greatest intimacy with God. The richest songs are most often born in caves and pits. Eternity echoes from them. David goes on to say about his new song, "..Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD." (Psalm 40:3)

What if the song being written through you will change the world for someone else?

Listen to "40" by KING + COUNTRY for a stunning rendition of David's new song.