Live Like That

~Psalm 139:13-14, 16-18~

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well...

Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!

Were I to count them,

they would outnumber the grains of sand--

~Psalm 23:6~

Surely your {His} goodness and love will follow me

all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the house of the LORD

forever.

Just as the water washes away the footprints in the sand, so are our days, limited in existence. However, the impact of those days is to be determined by the choices made and love shared. God has already ordained the number of our days (Ps. 139:16). He, too, knows the decisions we will make, even before we make them. He's knows when we will give in to him, and he knows when our sinful nature will take control. However, despite my successes and failures, His goodness and love abound in me. 

I've taken extreme liking to the Sidewalk Prophets's song "Live Like That". There's a few stanzas of the song that really capture my attention and make me think twice about the way Christ is perceived (or not perceived) through my life. 

Was I love 

When no one else would show up? 

Was I Jesus to the least of those?

Was my worship more than just a song? 

I want to live like that 

And give it all I have 

So that everything I say and do 

Points to You 

Am I proof 

That You are who you say You are 

That grace can really change a heart?

Do I live like Your love is true? 

People pass 

And even if they don't know my name 

Is there evidence that I've been changed? 

When they see me, do they see You?

My prayer tonight is that when the water washes the footprints of my life away, my legacy will live on as a follower of Christ. More than that, I pray that each person I come into contact with while on this Earth would know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ has saved me and that He can save them, too. I desire that my life be a mirror image of the goodness and mercy of the Lord. I desire to live life in gratitude for all that Christ has done for me.