Reach out to Christ and fill the air with His praises
Reach out to Christ and fill the air with His praises
By Rob Wiltshire
Have you noticed the Facebook memes with quotes like “being an adult is hard?”
In case you’ve missed them, here are some of the memes in written form…
“Who do I speak to about quitting adulthood?”
“Being an adult is the dumbest thing I have ever done.”
“I wanna submit my two weeks’ notice from being an adult. This job is hard.”
I personally like this one best
“Being an adult is like folding a fitted sheet.”
Being an adult is hard isn’t it?
As a pastor I honestly wish I could tell you that life is going to be easy and simple, and that it will always be fair. But if I did that I would be lying to you.
Life has ups and downs, good times and well…not so good times. One day everything is going right for you, and in the next moment it is doing the opposite. And often times from no fault of your own.
For example,
Someone borrows your car and returns it with no fuel, so you run out on the way to work making you late.
There is a downturn in the economy so your boss is forced to lay you off.
And in the midst of our struggles the question often bouncing around our head is; “What do I do?”
When being an adult is hard, what do I do?
Here’s a thought that’s somewhat easy to remember…
“REACH OUT TO CHRIST AND FILL THE AIR WITH HIS PRAISES.”
If you wondering what that means, it’s simply this; regardless as to what is happening in life we “reach out to Christ and Fill the Air with His Praises.”
If we have just been laid off from work; “Reach out to Christ and Fill the Air with His Praises.”
If you are constantly struggling with health problems; “Reach out to Christ and Fill the Air with His Praises.”
But so often we do the opposite by reaching out to nothing and fill the air with the problem.
Reaching out looks like inviting the solution — Jesus — in that enables us to keep moving forward.
It looks like praying, reading our bibles, connecting with other Christians and allowing them to inspire us. It looks like forgiveness, confession, and ultimately it looks like us surrendering control of the situation over to Jesus.
Filling the Air with His Praises is us focusing on the solution — Jesus — rather than the problem.
How often when we have a problem do we fill the air with ‘it’—the problem? It becomes all we think about, post on Facebook about; talk about, meditate on, etc. The problem becomes the very thing that we praise. By doing this, we make the problem the god we praise.
Like I said at the start. I wish I could tell you that life will be simple and easy, but I know that would be a lie.
I wonder what it would look like if we practiced in those situations “Reaching out to Christ and Filling the Air with His Praises,” rather than reaching out to nothing and filling the air with the problem?