Another one from Charlie Hall

Song of the Redeemed
We sing it in the darkest place?Cause love is in Your powerful name?Shine the light of beauty and grace?We’re living in the name that can save
We sing to You the song of the redeemed??You’ve beautified our hearts and made us clean?You’ve rescued us from death and set us free?We sing to You the song of the redeemed
?We adore You and before You,?forgiven  and  redeemed?All races from all places, around the cross we sing

I haven’t forgotten about this blog.

I have been struggling a lot lately with things and struggling with if I should talk about them on the blog. Here are kind of my issues in my mind:
• This is my blog. This is a PERSONAL Blog.
• The blog is meant to document MY walk with Christ. This includes the ups and downs. The wins, the losses, the battles that I fight.
• This blog is also about the areas where I struggle and the process I use to solve those struggles.
• This blog is about being a person who struggles with self-esteem, suicidal ideation and depression and how my Christian walk is influenced by those plagues of the devil.
• This blog is also a place for people to discuss Biblical concepts and gain more understanding about Christ.
• What I do not want this to be is a constant whine and complaints about my personal life.
• The blog will be a potpourri of subjects to glorify God.
• I worship the God of relationships! God wants to know what is in my heart. I don’t know if I can say the same for my fellow man.
• I write this blog for God, to enhance my relationship with God, to glorify God.
• If people read this, I hope they are able to take something away from what I write. Not “poor Todd”. Maybe just maybe I can give someone out their an idea that will make a difference in their life. A way to enhance their relationship with the Lord or whatever.

My point being that i write this blog for two reasons. First and foremost is to document the changes that God makes in me and the things that I learn from him. I am in the process of being transformed. I struggle with this process. Sometimes I feel that Christians don’t want to talk about the struggles outside their own family or family group. So to an outsider they look like they never struggle. I don’t have that luxury. My family is not saved. I don’t get along with them very well. I also have few very close friends and always am very conscious and very concern about being a burden to them. There probably are other people who feel the way that I do.

What am I saying? I am saying my blog is going to be a potpourri of different aspects of my life, everything from what I am personally struggling with to new aspects of my relationship with our Lord, to philosophical discussions about life and our relationship with the Lord. God wants a personal relationship with us. It is going to be whatever the Lord brings in to my heart…

Patrick Mead talks about how the Poetry section is the PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) of the Bible. His point being is that section of the Bible shows that God is fully aware of how “squirrelly we are and how we swing from one mood to another based on a wide variety of internals and externals”.

King David didn’t just write the good stuff about his life. David questions, argues, feels hopeless, is angry, sins, redeems himself in his writings. No matter what he writes he shows his faith and glorifies God. I don’t claim to be anything close to King David in stature, relationship to God or writing skill. But I do feel that it shows that it is ok for me to write about these things.

We Christians live in the world but are not suppose to be a part of it. I try to separate myself from the world, sometimes I feel Satan grabs my leg, pulls and slams me back down into the world. Most times though I jump back into the world, more comfortable with sin than the eternal way.

This is the battle, and of this is what I write…