With Everything : Jonathan Crabtree

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For those of you who don't know, my church is ALC bradford and Friday nights at ALC are getting to a whole new level, the room has such a tangible feeling of god that no one can deny. This friday 7 new people gave their lives to christ and on that night the final song in worship was with everything. I had the honour of leading worship, and this blog post goes into more detail as to what I said on friday night when I was leading worship.

 Basically while I was deciding what songs to include in the set list I thought deeper into the songs than I have ever done before. Its surprising how easily you can get caught up in songs and miss out the message that is healed in the song, and when I came to with everything I realised how this message had been missed so much. The lyrics say, "with everything, with everything, we will shout for your glory" and the tone of the song makes people want to shout and go mental worshiping god, but thats the problem, we were worshiping god all out, but just for the sake of it, there was no depth behind that worship, or depth behind the lyrics, which lead me to think, why do we give everything, whats the reason behind our singing "with everything" and I began to list them, because he gives us wisdom, courage, blessing, strength, the list went on and on, but then I thought to myself, Is that really enough to give everything for, and I said to myself, if God didn't do any of these things for me would I still give my everything, and the answer was yes, and the reason was Jesus, the fact is all of what god gives us now is just a bonus from the ultimate gift that he gave us, which is eternal life and a chance to know him! We give everything, not for what he does for us, but because of what he has already done. No amount of wisdom, courage, blessing or strength could ever compare to gods gift of eternal life, and the reason that demands everything, is because he gave up everything he had so that we could have the chance to give everything to him. He gave up the realms of heaven and came down to the squalor of a stable, to live a life of need, to experience pain and suffering to the ultimate. It says in the bible that he was unrecognisable as a human being when he was on the cross, he was whipped with iron nailed whips, kicked and beaten within an inch of his life and nailed to a cross to suffer the most brutal death sentence just so that we could have a relationship with us! He could have left us, started again, abandoned us, but no, he came down to heaven and gave EVERYTHING for us.

 This is why we give everything. Because he gave everything for us. We don't give everything because of what he gives us, but because of what he gave us on the cross!

 Just in case you dont know what the song is, here is a link to it on youtube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wY6BPFoWU

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