Music Monday {Losing} & How Not To Be A Loser

This week's Music Monday post centers on hurt, words that hurt, words that fall hard on our hearts, unintended calloused words that do damage.

Tenth Avenue North puts it into perspective with their lyrics to Losing.

"I can't believe what she said...

I can't believe what he did

Don't they know it's wrong?

Don't they know it's wrong?

Maybe there's something I missed?

But how could they treat me like this?

It's wearing out my heart

The way they disregard"

It doesn't matter who said what.  It doesn't matter who texted this or that.  It doesn't matter if it was intended to hurt.  The fact remains that when hurt falls on your heart, there is conflict.  In hurtful situations, we all have a choice to make.  There is one thing we can control and that is our response to obey God or the enemy.

"This is love

This is hate... 

We gotta a choice to make"

A wise friend once told me once.... 
"We are fighting the enemy, but we have to remember it's not each other."

Sometimes we encounter people that are not nice.  The other day in busy metro traffic, I got in the way of three very important people.  How do I know they were VIP'S?  They honked loudly and let me know I was in the wrong.  


Are you bouncing back from a wound that has gone deep?  It wears out my heart the stories of insensitive words that are thrown about.  We truly live in a lost and broken world.  So much hurt, so much pain, so much loss.  


And yet God calls us to forgive, to let go of the pain, the hurt and the loss...

"Oh Father wont you forgive them

They don't know what they've been doing

Oh Father, give me grace to forgive them

Cause I feel like the one losing

I feel like I've been losing"

Those moments when hurt hits...I have to pray 

"Oh Father give me grace to forgive them, just like you forgave me".

God always hits me with an inconvenient truth.  

Ps. 15: 1 - 5 ~ "Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? 

Who may live on your holy hill? 

He whose walk is blameless 

and who does what is righteous, 

who speaks the truth from his heart 

and has no slander on his tongue, 

who does his neighbor no wrong 

and casts no slur on his fellowman, 

who despises a vile man 

but honors those who fear the Lord, 

who keeps his oath even when it hurts, 

who lends his money without usury 

and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. 

He who does these things will never be shaken." 

God in his mercy He brings healing in these verses.  Even if you do have the perfect comeback two hours later, and most certainly when you wanted to scream the necessary when someone is giving you the unkind words and gestures.  You have a choice to make....love God or love the enemy.  I will choose the first, because I don't want to be caught a loser.   

Music Monday [Empty Hands]

Tenth Avenue North 

This song was written by Mike Donehey of Tenth Avenue North.  Although we don't play it on The House FM, it's still a great song!  The lyrics were given to me by a dear friend and really helped me through a difficult day.  Let the words bring you hope.

I've got voices in my head and they are so strong
And I'm getting sick of this oh Lord, how long
Will I be haunted by the fear that I believe
My hands like locks on cages
Of these dreams I can't set free

But if I let these dreams die
If I lay down all my wounded pride
If I let these dreams die
Will I find that letting go lets me come alive

So empty my hands
Fill up my heart
Capture my mind with you

These voices speak instead and what's right is wrong
And I'm giving into them, please Lord, how long
Will I be held captive by the lies that I believe
My heart's in constant chaos and it keeps me so deceived

But if I let these dreams die
If I could just lay down my dark desire
If I let these dreams die
Will I find you brought me back to life

My mind is like a building burning down
I need your grace to keep me, keep me from the ground
And my heart is just a prisoner of war
A slave to what it wants and to what I'm fighting for


Which voices you are listening too?  God's or the worlds?  The Enemy likes to dish up attractive lies that we so easily swallow.  You know Satan doesn't have any new tools in his tool belt, because the same three still work...he steals..he kills...he destroys.  What does God require of us?  Full surrender with empty hands...So that God and only God can fill us.  Seek Him...you will find Him.