When I Get Where I'm Going

One of the best songs in the world today, it's also the next song in my series of songs dedicated to my Aunt Evelyn: When I Get Where I'm Going, by Brad Paisley.


When I get where I'm going
on the far side of the sky.
The first thing that I'm gonna do
Is spread my wings and fly.

I'm gonna land beside a lion,
and run my fingers through his mane.
Or I might find out what it's like
To ride a drop of rain

Yeah when I get where I'm going,
there'll be only happy tears.
I will shed the sins and struggles,
I have carried all these years.
And I'll leave my heart wide open,
I will love and have no fear.
Yeah when I get where I'm going,
Don't cry for me down here.

I'm gonna walk with my grandaddy,
and he'll match me step for step,
and I'll tell him how I missed him,
every minute since he left.
Then I'll hug his neck.

So much pain and so much darkness,
in this world we stumble through.
All these questions, I can't answer,
so much work to do.

But when I get where I'm going,
and I see my Maker's face.
I'll stand forever in the light,
of His amazing grace.
Yeah when I get where I'm going,
there'll be only happy tears.
Hallelujah!
I will love and have no fear.
When I get where I'm going.
Yeah when I get where I'm going

If You Could See Me Now

The second post of songs I'm dedicating to Aunt Evelyn: this one is "If you Could See Me Now" by Kim Noblitt.



Our prayers have all been answered. I finally arrived.
The healing that had been delayed has now been realized.
No one's in a hurry. There's no schedule to keep.
We're all enjoying Jesus, just sitting at His feet.

If you could see me now, I'm walking streets of gold.
If you could see me now, I'm standing strong and whole.
If you could see me now, you'd know I've seen His face.
If you could see me now, you'd know the pain is erased.
You wouldn't want me to ever leave this place,
If you could only see me now.

My light and temporary trials have worked out for my good,
To know it brought Him glory when I misunderstood.
Though we've had our sorrows, they can never compare.
What Jesus has in store for us, no language can share.

You wouldn't want me to ever leave this perfect place
If you could only see me now
If you could see me now
If you could only see me now

God is God

Hey sorry for not posting I'm starting again I promise. Anyways this is an announcement that for the next week I'm posting lyrics to songs, dedicated to my great Aunt Evelyn who passed away two days ago. Please offer up a prayer for my family, especially my Aunt Virgie, her sister.

The first one is "God is God", by Steven Curtis Chapman. (btw, you can go to youtube and listen to any of these songs, which I would suggest doing.)



And the pain falls like a curtain
On the things I once called certain
And I have to say the words I fear the most
I just don’t know

And the questions without answers
Come and paralyze the dancer
So I stand here on the stage afraid to move
Afraid to fall, oh, but fall I must
On this truth that my life has been formed from the dust

God is God and I am not
I can only see a part of the picture He’s painting
God is God and I am man
So I’ll never understand it all
For only God is God

And the sky begins to thunder
And I’m filled with awe and wonder
‘Til the only burning question that remains
Is who am I

Can I form a single mountain
Take the stars in hand and count them
Can I even take a breath without God giving it to me
He is first and last before all that has been
Beyond all that will pass



Oh, how great are the riches of His wisdom and knowledge
How unsearchable for to Him and through Him and from Him are all things

So let us worship before the throne
Of the One who is worthy of worship alone

are you ready for some football?

So with training camps starting, preseason coming, the regular season around the bend, hope springing everywhere and, of course, Michael Vick in court, I have the following questions for my faithful readers (at least those who care about football)

Who's going to win the Super Bowl this year?
Who's your favorite team?
Where will your favorite team finish?
Will Randy Moss have a good year?

5 reasons I love Christ

So both Jesse Phillips (prophetically speaking) and Joe Martino (searching the sunsets) have "tagged" me, whatever that means. Basically I have to write 5 reasons I love Christ. Hmm. I haven't read other people's "Tagged" posts in a while, so if I'm totally copying people with my answer or the passages I cite, I'm sorry. It was not intentional.

1) My first answer will be obvious. I love Christ because He has acquitted me of my sins. I will not be held accountable for the hell-deserving things I've done.
"Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him!" Romans 5:9.

2) I love Christ because through him I am no longer in bondage to my sin nature. I have achieved freedom from sin through Christ. I have now died to the law that I may live through Christ.
"19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:19-20

3) As dc talk says, "I am still a man in need of a Savior." I love Christ because although Christ has conquered the power of sin in my life, I am still a wretched sinner, and although sin is still waging it's war in my soul, He continues to be my Savior. He continues to forgive me my sins.
"but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. There is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Romans 7:23-8:1

4) I love Christ because through his atoning death on the cross, I now know that I will spend eternity in His presence, with his church, bringing him glory forever and ever. I don't simply have victory over sin in this life, but through Christ I have victory over sin's just punishment, hell. God's presence will bring me eternal joy, not eternal terror.
"I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp." Revalation 21:22-23

5) Lastly, I love Christ because of all the blessings He has bestowed on me. My family, my friends, basketball, biscuits and gravy, Church, Red Bug, 24, 1$ double cheeseburgers, CSI Miami, Sovereign Grace, John Piper, spaghetti, New Orleans, Buttermilks, 1$ mcChickens, more basketball, CJ Mahaney, great music, David Caruso, Metro Life, Brad Paisley, all my neices and nephews, 1$ chicken nuggets. Truly I have been richly blessed.
"He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" Romans 8:32.

Favorite Verses

So I'm at work (yes I actually work) and don't have enough time to do the long-expected "5 reasons I love Christ." Therefore, I'm going to ask two questions (And you have to answer both.)

1)What is your favorite verse(s) of the Bible?

The only reason I put the (s) there is so that you can put multiple verses FROM THE SAME PASSAGE! You cannot say "Philippians 4:8" and "Romans 8:1" you can say "Philippians 2:1-11."

2) If you got stranded on an island and found a box marked "ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE" which book would you really, really want it to be?

Muuhahahahaha this should be fun.

bad gifts

There somes to be a comical trend among cessationists (ok fine the pyromaniacs.) The trend is that when talking about the gifts, everyone who used to be charismatic should tell their horror stories about what they came from (abuse of the gifts, the fact that they themselves were "faking" it etc.) to show why the charismata has passed. Nothing cracks me up more.

Think about it. People are faking spiritual gifts for whatever reason (to appear more "spiritual", fear of man, etc.) and then they somehow are the self-righteous ones. How dare people let me fake tongues! How dare they let me lie about recieving prophetic gifts! If anyone is going to be self-righteous (and yes I know no one should be self-righteous) shouldn't it be the ones who are actually sincere in their use of the gifts?

I don't understand how telling stories about how you were in a charismatic church, you faked gifts, you realized and were convicted about your dishonesty, and then decided that because you were faking everyone ELSE must be faking, is at all a convincing argument as to why everyone else is faking.

Somebody enlighten me.