A few weeks ago, I was listening to my iPod. My brother had just bought some new music and as always, he shared it with me. Anyway, I was listening to my music and a ‘new’ song came on. Maybe it was the beauty of the lyrics, maybe the simplicity of the music, maybe it was God making me curious. In any case this song began to haunt me. The chorus goes, “Faith is not about reaching, believing is not about seeing, and on this journey I keep finding, flying is not about wings.” (Flying Is Not About Wings by Downhere) The song is a quite simple song, but also incredibly deep. You can get a lot out of it just listening to it once. But there is more, so much more. A ‘more’ I couldn’t quite get my finger on. So I looked up at the sky and said, “God, I want to understand this. There’s something here for me I just know it. I especially want to understand the whole ‘flying is not about wings’ thing.”
I believe God answered that prayer, the answer came in two ways.
The first one came while I was talking to one of my friends who was struggling. I remember not being sure what to say, and then all of a sudden having a verse come into my head. The funny thing is I think I needed that verse just as much, if not more than my friend did at the time. Here it is, “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. . .” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
The second one came when I was once again listening to my iPod. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do love music. **smiles** This time the song was ‘I Need You’ by The Swift. One little part towards the end of the song grabbed me, I grinned and was like, “God, this is it, this is my answer.” The ‘little part’ goes like this, “. . . it’s not that I am stronger, look at my feeble wings, but I’ve been lifted higher, Yahweh’s lifted me in His own strength. . .”
The last while I have found myself on the ground more times than I can count. I am constantly falling and it’s usually because of me, tripping over my own two feet. I feel like a failure. I let God down so many times. I am weak. Very weak, and I loathe my weakness. That’s why these two songs and that verse have come to mean so much to me.
You see, God does not despise my weakness. In fact, He loves it when I’m weak because it’s at that time that I discover my desperate need for Him and when I discover my desperate need for Him, I find that I never needed to be strong in the first place. My brave face isn’t as vital as I thought it was, God is more than strong enough for me.
It is when you are weak that you discover how great God is and how wonderful His perfect strength is, and the wonderful fact that you were never met to be strong enough all on your own, He was meant to be strong for you. Weakness is beautiful, for it is through it that the greatness of God is seen.
Trust me, flying has nothing to do with your wings, and everything to do with Yahweh lifting us higher. Strength has nothing to do with us being strong, and everything to do with us being weak.
“. . . for when I am weak, then I am strong--the less I have, the more I depend on Him.” (2 Corinthians 12:10b)
p.s. if this seems jumbled and you’re not sure about some of the stuff I’ve written about.(as in the whole ‘this makes no sense at all’ thing) Know that it’s because of this very weak writer. **grins** You can listen to the songs and read the verses yourself, and if it still makes no sense and you still really want to know--God does answer prayer. Y’know?
2 comments:
I love this... thanks for writing it. =) luv ya, Nita
Wow, that's pretty awesome. No, it's not all jumbled. It makes perfect sense. Thanks for sharing from your life; it's a blessing to know that God cares so much, and to see it in your life is yet another confirmation of his love and his strength.
Keep living, keep loving, and keep flying!
God bless
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