Everything Else Can Wait

"Lord give me you,everything else can wait"

This phrase has been appearing all over my social network feeds and it was bound to make it to my blog post.Firstly WOW what a powerful call,to have God first and that everything else can and must come second.

Now this phrase comes from a song written by Shana Wilson and it truly resonates with the very depths of my soul. I heard this song in a time in my life when I must admit that God may have taken a back seat in my heart. It all started with a guy (doesn't it always),that I particularly liked and who was for once not a bad choice in the grand scheme of liking people.

At the start of this "like journey (as I have dubbed it) I reminded myself not to be consumed by the emotions of it all, to keep focused on God and to guard my heart. Needless to say I did not guard my heart to well, BUT this story will not end in the old fashioned "Nelly" disaster. The guy in question is an upstanding godly man,but I had allowed my heart and my head to get caught up in the wave of this new found godly crush (if you have been following my blog you will realise that a "godly-man" crush would be my first). I pretty soon started applying the same rules to liking that the world does and forgot to keep Jesus at the center. As much as I heeded myself not to get too caught up, I found myself jumping the gun a bit and developing premature expectations.

I did not realise how many expectations I had build up until a particular day in church, during a moment of worship, when God spoke to me. He reminded me of the overwhelming and unconditional love He has for me. Oh wow what a moment that was! My Father brought to remembrance the way He loved me through the worst and lowest moments of my life and how He has restored a hundred fold what I had lost. I was just in awe at this display of pure love and in that moment I was reminded that EVERYTHING else can wait, including this crush that has taken a front seat in my heart. It was in that moment,in communion with my Father, that I realised that I had put this crush before God in my heart and that spot was never meant for ANYONE else other that my Dad.

As I stood in worship I let go of my expectations and I gave God back that place of honour in my heart. It was His unconditional love for me that made me surrender ALL to Him and when God took that seat in my heart once more, He renewed and refreshed His plan and purpose for me. He filled me up with inexplicable joy and peace of mind. So overwhelming was the moment I could barely contain it.

As much as I never want to be the reason a man gets distracted from God, I also never want a man to be the reason I get distracted from the work of my Father and the time I spend with Him. He is my first love and if He ends up being my only love I would have been love beyond measure on this earth.

So the cry of my heart is "Lord give me you everything else can wait" .