Destruction's What I Need

So, there's this song that I love. It's called Hurricane by Jimmy Needham. It's pretty radical thinking in terms of our comfortable lives. It actually claims, "I don't want to be safe tonight." and goes on to say, "I need you like a hurricane, thunder crashing wind and rain, to tear my walls down, I'm only yours now."

Think about that for a second...a hurricane...tearing your "walls" to pieces. Would you turn to God then? Would you seek Him then? Since, you know, everything would be out of your own control at that point. I know I would. But I, like this song, want to live like I'm always in a hurricane. It's so easy to get caught up in the box of a life. To want things that mean nothing. To totally lose sight of what we KNOW our Counselor, our Savior, our Creator is fully capable of. Why on earth do we stray, when we know the way? Well, I guess I said it right there, "on earth." We stray because we are on this crazy planet, with crazy ideas, crazy people and even crazier ways. We KNOW Satan is the prince of this world and he will woo you with all he's got, yet we fall into the trap over and over again. Then we just wait for our hurricane, secretly praying it never comes, and come back to the Father.

I love this song. As hard as it is, to think of needing God like a hurricane, and that being a GOOD thing...it's so true. We shouldn't be safe in this world. We shouldn't conform to it. We are called for something different. It's so easy to fall back into "normal" but I don't want to be normal. I want to be radical in His name, not my own. It's so obvious that this place, where we so proudly wave our flag and call home, is a facade. It's the bright, shining lights, the comfortable homes, all the food you can imagine, the nice cars and anything else that we selfishly consume to comfort ourselves in this life. I am beyond guilty of it. My desires consume most of my thinking...a better house, more clothes, more money, better behaved children...NOTHING that has ANYTHING to do with glorifying the one and only that set me free to be here for HIS sake in the first place.

So God, I need you like a hurricane. Tear my walls down. Take these selfish desires, Lord and burn them in a wildfire, untamed. Lord, take my mind and my body wherever I need to be to remind me what it means to serve you and you alone.

Hurricane by Jimmy Needham