Only through you being you can God do what God’s got to do

How are you going?  Do you have enough passion?  Or, is it waning right now?  Are you at the point where you just want to give up?  Or, is there a fire in your belly and speed in your legs?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Are you on fire for something?  Has something grabbed you, or do you hold out hope that it will?  Or, has your life fire been extinguished already?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Will you go to your grave satisfied?  Or, will the grave swallow you up, content that you made no difference at all?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

In your going out and coming home, are you doing what God put you on this earth to do?  Or, in your going out and coming home are you just going through the motions of a futility you can’t reconcile?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Are you growing in the direction of God’s will for you?  Or, have you been stagnating for what the good Lord knows is too long already?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Are you completely free of others’ expectations, having no fetters to contain your expression?  Or, are you morbidly afraid of failure, of your words or thoughts or deeds coming to nothing, of people laughing at you, of being insignificant?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Are you using all of your life experiences and gifts and heart to make the difference on this earth that only you can, while you can?  Or are you defeated, thinking your life experiences have pigeonholed you, that you have no gifts, or your heart is no good?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Do you wake up of a morning or an evening with a passion for purpose flowing through your mind?  Or, do you wake and very quickly commiserate or disintegrate?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Have you found the place of solace in forging ahead the path of God’s destiny for you?  Or, are you still languishing in comfortable spaces amid people who are congratulating themselves about being content in doing nothing?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Are you accustomed to life on a rollercoaster or life as a ocean cruise?  Are you thankful for that rollercoaster that builds resilience in you?  Or do you complain in desiring the numbing cruise, when your purpose was the ride those heights and negotiate those dips?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Can you wrestle with aspiring for contentment in a life that seems hardly to make any sense?  Or, are you determined to make sense of everything as you wrangle in a quest for your own fully paid-down version of insanity?  Could it be that life isn’t supposed to make any sense to your and my way of thinking?  Doesn’t acceptance promote empathy?  Doesn’t acceptance reveal wisdom?  Doesn’t acceptance show the depths of character?  Doesn’t acceptance generate peace?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Is it possible that everything that requires fixing is possible only as we believe it is possible?  Or, have you become so jaded that you believe this world is beyond reformation?  Have you ceased to believe?  Or, are you up for a fresh fight that you know your God wants from you?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Are you identifying the many things that you were taught that are wrong, unlearning those unright things, forgiving your teachers, resting in the pedagogical mystery?  Or, are you either stubbornly holding onto the untruths taught to you, or resenting those who placed them there inside you?  Are you experiencing the peace that comes with letting go?  Has freedom’s empowerment come into you that comes only from grasping truth?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Are the people you know, the people who have come into your life for a reason, free to be who they are, whether you like who they are or not?  Or, do you continue to persist in holding them to a standard that isn’t theirs?  Is it the past’s futility that you invest in, or is it the preciousness of future?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Have you managed to look above the present overwhelm in faith, to hold out hope for an answer that may not be there?  Or, have you resigned yourself to the miniscule possibilities that only what you think can happen will happen?  Have you shut God out?  Have you said, “God, you no longer move”?  Or, do you live and breathe knowing that God’s about to do something?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

Have you comprehended recently the miracle that you are alive for such a time as this?

Only through you being you
can God do what God’s got to do.

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