This past Sunday we sang the following. Those of us on the praise team sometimes miss the emotion of the songs we sing due to concentration on the music and the timing. But every once in a while a song, lyrics and music, stick in my head. I realized a couple of years ago through my disciplines that this is one of the ways that the Spirit whispers into my heart. Music is simply the theology of our heart. So the Spirit slips in the message disguised as a beautiful song.
This song has been running non-stop in my head and heart. In particular the line "only what I have done for love's reward, will stand the test of time." Have I loved sincerely? Completely? Sacrificially? I hope so, I wanted to, I can with the rest of the time. Gone are the actions instigated by guilt, by power, by recognition. I want to spend the rest of my time simply helping, pursuing "love's reward" I believe at some point we hit the place where secret service is the greatest accomplishment we can make. He can decide the value of the service, I simply did it because I love Him...and them.
When it's all been said and done
There is just one thing that matters
Did I do my best to live for truth
Did I live my life for You
When it's all been said and done
All my treasures will mean nothing
Only what I've done for love's reward
Will stand the test of time
Lord Your mercy is so great
That You look beyond our weakness
And find purest gold in miry clay
Making sinners into saints
I will always sing Your praise
Here on earth and ever after
For You've shown me Heaven's my
True home
When it's all been said and done
You're my life when life is gone
Lord I'll live my life for You.
Godspeed, the song is both deep and simple. You're my life when life is gone.
Don
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