In The Hands Of God

I love getting new cds because I finding music that I can fall in love with. One of my newest cds is the WOW Hits 2010. There are many songs on there that have encouraged me or challenge me. So of course I'm going to share them.

The first song is By Your Side, by Tenth Avenue North (who I happened to see in concert not that long ago)
This song is a great reminder that no matter what I'm going through Jesus is right there with me. He'll never leave, no matter what happens.

Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

'Cause I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life

Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go

The next song, Two Hands by Jars Of Clay
What would happen if Christens stopped trying to live in two worlds? Trying to reach to Jesus with one hand and the world with the other. What would happen if we were reaching to Jesus with two hands?

I’ve been living out of sanity
I’ve been splitting hairs and blurring lines
I am a house that is divided
In my heart and in my mind

I use one hand to pull closer
The other to push you away
If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high

I have a broken disposition
I’m a liar who thirsts for the truth
And while I ache for faith to hold me
I need to feel the scars and see the proof

And if we just keep digging we can reach the foundation
Of our souls
And if we just keep cutting all the chains from our hearts
We’ll lose control

And it feels like giving in
It feels like starting over
It feels like waking up, and you know it’s coming
It feels like a brand new day
Open your eyes

Another encouraging song is You're Not Shaken by Phil Stacey
It's a great reminder that our 'world' can be completely changed by what's going on around us, but that God is unchanging, His 'world' stays the same. How great is that!

I am sinking in a river that is raging
I am drowning, will I ever rise to breathe again
I want to know why I just want to understand
Will I ever know why

How could this be from Your hand
When every little thing that I have dreamed would be
Just slips away like water through my hand
And when it seems the walls of my belief are crashing down

Like they're all made of sand
I won't let go of You now, because I know You're not shaken
I'm trembling in the darkness of my own fear
All the questions with no answers still grip me while

I'm here And I may never know why I may not understand
But I will lift up my eyes And trust this is Your plan
When I am in the valley of the shadow of death
You're not shaken, You're not shaken

You're right here beside me and
You have never left
You're not shaken, You're not shaken

The last song (at least for now) is Savior, Please by Josh Wilson
Yet another song about how Jesus is everything we need (hmmm....seems to be a pattern in the songs that hit me this time around).

Savior, please take my hand .
I work so hard, I live so fast.
This life begins, then it ends.
And then I do the best that I can,
but I don't know how long I'll last.

I try to be so tough,
but I'm just not strong enough.
I can't do this alone, God I need you
to hold on to me.
I try to be good enough,
but I'm nothing without your love.
Savior, please keep saving me.

Savior, please help me stand.
I fall so hard, I fade so fast.
Will you begin right where I end?
And be the God of all I am because you're all I have.

Hallelujah!
Everything you are to me
is everything I'll ever need.
and i am learning to believe
cause you're the one who's saving me.

So anyway that's all I have for now. You should totally listen to the WOW 2010 cd, because there are so many other great songs on there. Oh and one last song, In The Hands of God by the Newsboys. I'll let you look up those lyrics.