Intentions

A couple hours ago I got back home from a Hillsong concert. It was such an amazing worship experience! It's late but I'm too excited to sleep. It's so comforting to be in a room of fellow believers worshiping the same God.

While I was worshiping, God put the word intention on my heart. After a song ended, I caught myself clapping, and I was thinking, "Why am I clapping? Am I applauding Hillsong or God?" I was just clapping because that's what you do when someone plays a song, but I wasn't there to worship anyone but God.

To do something with intention is to do it with a specific and distinct purpose in mind. How many times in a day do I do things that have no real purpose or meaning attached to them? Too many to count. My goal is to rid myself of the desire for the things that don't matter, the things that serve no purpose and to be intentional in all I do. And this is why...

Aftermath by Hillsong United

The skies lay low where You are

On the earth You rest Your feet

Yet the hands that cradle the stars

Are the hands that bled for me

And in that moment of glorious surrender

You were broken for all the world to see

Lifted out of the ashes

I am found in the aftermath

Freedom found in Your scars

And in Your grace my life redeemed

For You chose to take the sinner's crown

As You placed Your crown on me

And in that moment of glorious surrender

Was the moment You broke the chains in me

Lifted out of the ashes

I am found in the aftermath

And in that moment You opened up the heavens

To the broken, the beggar, and the thief

Lifted out of the wreckage

I find hope in the aftermath

And I know that You're with me

Yes I know that You're with me here

And I know Your love will light the way

Now all I have I count it all as loss

But to know You and to carry the cross

Knowing I'm found

In the light of the aftermath