I was listening to a song today that used to be my favorite way back in high school. It expressed a burning desire in my heart to follow the Lord.
Living Dangerously In The Hands Of God
Steve Camp
How easily Jesus is forgotten amid the comfort of my life
How the flames become a flicker, and faith a brilliant disguise
Our Sundays become a holiday, they’re an empty exercise
And the cost of real devotion seems so foreign to my life
Chorus:
Oh, to gladly risk it all, oh to be faithful to His call
Abandoned to grace yet anchored in His love
Living dangerously in the hands of God
Our Lord He is a hiding place, His hold is strong and sure
Though the storms may rage around me in His love I stand secure
So let me live like I believe it, and though my faith is prone to fail
Though I cower under trial, by His grace I shall prevail
Chorus
Spoken: There’s safety in complacency, but God is calling us out of our
comfort zone into a life of complete surrender to the cross. To live
dangerously as not to live recklessly but righteously. And it is
because of God’s radical grace for us that we can risk living a life of
radical obedience for Him.
You’ve got to walk on for the Lord He walks with us
You’ve got to walk on though it costs you everything
You’ve got to pray on
Spoken: For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth,
that He may strongly support those whose hearts are completely His.
CHORUS
…Living dangerously
Are you living dangerously
Oh we ought to be living dangerously in the hands of God
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Camp, Frazier
© 1989 Birdwing Music (ASCAP) / Sparrow Song (BMI)
Somehow something has changed since I was in high school. Now when I listen to the words of this song, I feel that something inside has died. My heart cries to live like it says, but maybe part of me just doesn’t think that’s possible anymore. It feels like a dream that disappeared in the waking moments of reality. What’s happened to me? I don’t want to be cold and callous. I want to believe again.
Ah Carol, you took me down memory lane with that song.
I loved that song too, in fact the whole album, yes, album. Shall we date ourselves by saying it was Awesome!!
I too sometimes feel like something inside is alot deader than it was back then. But I don’t know for sure.
What died? Was it youth? Was it the simplicity of thinking I knew it all when in fact I knew very little?
It’s kind of like opening up pandoras box as you age and grow and experience life. So many things get released into ones life, and you can’t put them back there.
Maybe we were never meant to put them back. Maybe we are growing into the next level of faith and commitment?
I gotta believe that that can be passionate too, with depth. Maybe passion, with depth, is compassion. Dunno for sure.
But thanks for the fond song memories.
Hi. I have known what it was like to feel a bit deader than before. It was a long time ago. It worried me enough that I was able to pray fervently about my need for renewal. I told God I needed to fall in love with Him again, and asked him to make it happen. He did. He gave me some really challenging tasks that opened my eyes to some spiritual realities I hadn’t known about, and it led me back to Him in a powerful way. He deals with all of us differently according to what we need/what we understand etc. I say ‘ask Him, and then leave it to Him to sort it out’. He specialises in restoring life to people.
Thanks for the encouragement.