He'll never go

The 21 Day iPod Shuffle Challenge
If you come to the TinyChat meetings on The Endtime Tribune, you know that my dad talks a lot about the 21-day "prayer fast," where you pray about one thing and one thing only for 21 days. Well, I'm taking that challenge myself. But to add to that, I have a hard time having faith that God will even answer my prayers--ya know, cuz God does whatever He wants to. So I have to work on my faith the same time I'm praying for 21 days, so that I have the determination to keep that covenant. The way I'm going to do it is the 21-day iPod Shuffle Challenge--something I came up with myself.

A lot of the time, I'm praying for an answer and I ask God to give me that answer through a song. I just grab my mp3 player and put it on shuffle, and whatever song that comes up--be it a love song or a praise song--is supposed to answer my question somehow. Does it work? Well, sometimes. A few times I think God's sense of humor has kicked in and He gives me a song that has nothing to do with what I'm asking about. Well, for the next 21 days, once a day I'll put my mp3 player on Shuffle and think of a Christian lesson that goes with that song!

Today's Challenge: Already Over by Red

There's times in our life when we just want to block God out and push Him out of our lives. We just want to do whatever we want to do, or maybe He didn't "come through" on something we prayed about. We ignore him and we live our lives on our own. The thing of it is, God's not going to just walk away! He doesn't give up on you, like a friend or even a family member might when we deliberately tell them to leave. This song talks about how God will never go. He's all around us. Once He gets through to you, He doesn't stop calling--kind of like an annoying person who keeps your phone ringing off the hook after you give him your phone number. 

God never gives up on us, no matter how much we want Him to go away. He's stubborn that way. After all, He created you! So He'll just keep on bugging you and bugging you until you give in again and realize that the fight was already over since the beginning. He owns you, all of you, so why don't you stop fighting Him and let Him take care of you?