Dare you to Move

The other day just before I was leaving for work and I found Eleah's "Walk to Remember" soundtrack. For seem reason I decided to listen to it on the 20 minute drive to work.

If you've never seen the movie A Walk to Remember, don't, unless you have an entire box of kleenex handy. Trust me on this one.

I popped the CD in my player and the first song came on.... a ballad called "Dare You to Move" by a band named Switchfoot.

Have you ever had God speak to you so directly that there is no way you can ignore Him. Some times He is subtle and he speaks to you in a soft voice and sometimes He is in your face. This was an in your face time for me.

Here are the lyrics that I heard that morning:

Welcome to the planet

Welcome to existence

Everyone's here

Everyone's here

Everybody's watching you now

Everybody waits for you now

What happens next

What happens next

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

Like today never happened

Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout

Welcome to resistance

The tension is here

Tension is here

Between who you are and who you could be

Between how it is and how it should be

Maybe redemption has stories to tell

Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell

Where can you run to escape from yourself?

Where you gonna go?

Where you gonna go?

Salvation is here

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

Like today never happened

Today never happened

Today never happened

Today never happened before

As I listened to these powerful words I went over every terrible thing that had happened to me in the past. The passing of my father in law, the traumatic birth of my youngest daughter, the loss of a friendship. I remember literally being on the floor after Tessa was born with no desire to move on. Who dared me to move? How did my Christianity show as I went through these dark days? Was I a witness despite everything?

Because it is so true, what the song says.... "everyone is watching you now. What happens next?" As Christians we are under the world's microscope.

Thank you God. Forgivness and salvation is right where I fell.