Song of the Month: NOVEMBER 2023
These four walls and these two hearts, all you wanted from the start. Just me, just You and this empty room.
God doesn’t need all our fancy frills like stages and complicated ‘rituals’. The fact is all He wants is our heart; that’s the major idea behind Cade Thompson’s song, Empty Room.
When it comes to our faith, we try to make it complicated when all we truly need is simplicity. The reminder Empty Room leaves is that we so often get caught up in striving to reach perfection before we strengthen our relationship with Him, but it’s through Him that we find perfection and blamelessness.
But a stage and lights is never what You had in mind, You only want this heart of mine close to You. That’s all our Father wants from us- our hearts close to His. How special is that? We don’t need to strive for anything huge and seemingly impossible, just connection. Paul commanded us in 1 Thessalonians 17 to “pray without ceasing”. Prayer is vital in helping us find that connection with God because prayer is conversation. After all, we talk to our friends and God is our closest friend, so shouldn’t we talk to Him too? In the same way that our conversations with friends aren’t perfect and structured, our conversations with God needn’t abide by any rules.
When we get caught up in life, we forget the importance of having a quiet time daily to spend time in God's presence. That could consist of reading a devotional, writing in your prayer journal or singing worship songs, none of which are wrong, but all we really need to do is read our Bible, God’s Word. As Empty Room says, These four walls and these two hearts are all You wanted from the start. That’s all we need to bring. In fact, that’s all our Father wants! Our hearts must be waiting and willing to accept His loving words. We need to be absolutely available for Him. A perfect example of this type of quiet time is when Jesus used to go off on his own and pray. (Matthew 14:23, Luke 5: 16, Mark 1:35 and many more examples)
Empty Room ends in this way- It’s just me, just You and this empty room. And I think that's so true.
The Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/7s7tSNcxZdazOLMICialtd
The YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTFDkJcYT5U
How wonderful! All God wants is a personal relationship between us and Him! It's not something we need to do or prove, just give our hearts to the Lord and pray!
What amazing truths as always. Thank you Emma for reminding us that our relationship with God is what is important.
"But a stage and lights is never what You had in mind, You only want this heart of mine close to You."
So true! We get so distracted with the details of sound tech, visuals, lots of instruments... but though they're all important, the truth is simple - we just need to humble ourselves and give God the glory!
Thank you for another great post, Emma 😃