the words in the picture are from the song promise by maverick city music and if you haven't heard it you should definitely give it a listen!! lately it's been stuck in my head nonstop (like allllll day through the fields haha) and i've kinda started learning it on the piano. there are several reasons i love the song so much (naomi raine is sooo good) but most of it has to do with the lyrics:
From the rising sun
to the setting same
I will praise Your name
Great is Your faithfulness to me
first of all you've probably noticed i love sunsets and sunrises so automatically those lyrics make me excited, but last night i was thinking on it and how it means every single thing i do throughout the day (sunrise to sunset) will be to praise God--every. single. thing. that actually goes right along with what im learning in the book im reading right now called don't waste your life but if i start talking about that i'll never stop haha. i want to focus more on living out my life letting literally everything i do bring glory to God, and to consciously praise him and boast in all that he's done for me (which is everything)!!
last night i decided to walk to my favorite sunset spot here in seward to sit and read/journal during the sunset and it ended up taking much longer than i expected but i was grateful because it gave me the opportunity to reflect on how much i love it here and all the little things that God has put in place for me to appreciate (like sunflowers+campfire smoke, weeping willows+old victorian houses, walking distance+country roads, coffee shops+cute backyards, etc)! i eventually got there and started journaling, just like i had planned but i would have only had about 30 minutes before i needed to head back home and i was disappointed about that. little did i know God had something cooking that i was NOT expecting haha!!
a little background on this sunset spot-- it's literally a random place in the side of a road on the edge of town where there's a short driveway/parking spot thing to a field. usually when we go there no one else is around and the people that drive by definitely question what we're doing.
that's why i was super confused and nervous when a car that was driving by turned around and pulled into this spot right behind where I was sitting in the grass. i started frantically writing in my journal about the car and I was freaking out thinking maybe if i got kidnapped i could leave this journal and someone would read it and find out what happened haha… i didn't even want to turn around and look because i didn't want to seem paranoid or something which is soooo dumb, if they really were gonna kidnap me apparently i would just let them in order to not hurt their feelings or something
when i finally got the courage to take a peek back there were 2 old men getting out of the white minivan (so i wrote that down as a clue of course). i heard one of them say something to me but couldn't tell what they said so i said "im sorry what was that" and he said "are you here to see the comet?!" i kinda just stared for a second super confused then explained to him i just come to this spot to watch the sunset all the time, and i knew nothing about any comet. he responded saying wow well it's your lucky night, you might get to see both!
i had just finished writing the song lyrics about sunrise to sunset and watched the sun go down, but this stranger had to expressed something worthy of giving God praise after the sunset… and that's when the next lyrics about God's faithfulness struck me. we hear a lot about our side of the relationship and having faith in Him, but the phrasing that describes his goodness and fulfillment of promises as faithfulness is less common.
i started thinking about how even if i only praise him from sunrise to sunset, his faithfulness continues before and after that. im sitting here carrying out my own plan of enjoying His art in the sky being completely in awe when He stuns me with even more goodness… after the sunset...His faithfulness doesn't depend on my faithfulness, it doesn't depend on my expectations or even on my requests (though He does honor those when we make them!) GREAT IS HIS FAITHFULNESS amiright!!!
sooo my pleasant and simple sunset jesus time was totally upgraded by the man with a greater plan to sunset jesus time+stargazing and i saw a comet for the first time in my life!!! also found out this comet's gonna be visible all the rest of the month so im definitely planning on doing it again and i can't wait, stargazing out in the country vs houston is soooo cool and has been underrated in my mind up until now!!
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