This past weekend I got the privilege to attend "Xtreme Winter"---(A youth conference featuring various speakers and Christian artists all proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ.) We left all 40-something of us early, and I mean EARLY Thursday morning. We had planned to arrive in Gatlinburg at around what was supposed to be 2 'o clock.....Well, traveling with 6 small children, 30 something teenagers and at least 4 grown men that have the smallest bladder in the Continental US we arrived at approximately 5:15. We arrived in one piece well all was intact except for one bus tire which had been popped due to a very elevated curb. Any who, once we arrived at our hotel, checked in, and changed clothes, finally the time had arrived to travel by foot to the convention center to hear the first night's speaker (whom I cannot remember his name) and worship with Casting Crowns. The speaker was great and then it was time for Casting Crowns. I was anxious at first about coming on this trip because I had been sick on and off the majority of the past few months, but as soon as Casting Crowns sang their song "Come to the Well" God let me know rather quickly that I was there for a reason! Worry is the sin I struggle with the most and it being around Christmas, which was my late mother's favorite time of the year, the struggle has been more prominent in my life lately. In the lyrics of this song it says repeatedly "Leave it all behind...Leave it all behind....Leave it all behind...and Come to the Well" And God whispered to me at that very moment, standing there very near the back of a convention center in Gatlinburg, TN that I just needed to let go of my worry, to.."Leave it all behind"...and Go to him "the Well". Then while I was fighting my worry and going over and over in my mind and wrestling with God about what he had just spoken to me through the song "come to the well" They began singing "Voice of Truth" and all of the lyrics meant something this time, usually I would just sing along with this song not actually meditating on what each lyric actually meant, but the two lines of this song that spoke to me the most said "The voice of truth tells me a different story. The voice of truth says do not be afraid." Then and there I stopped wrestling with God and realized I have really got to Let Go and Let God take care of all my anxieties and all my worries to truly be a follower of Christ I need to trust him completely. I had been listening to the wrong voice when I was worrying.. The voice of the liar tells you the incorrect story the voice of the liar says FEAR! I mean sure I'll still have my days cause hey, I'm human but I need to remind myself daily that with my God ALL things are possible and he cares for me! I encourage you to give your worries over to God! I'm praying that anyone who struggles with worry that they have an ah-ha moment like I did and they realize that God can take whatever trial you are going through and turn it into a triumph!
God Bless,
Leah <><
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