This is just therapy...

"This is my therapy...just call it what it is with a death grip on this life always transitioning. This is just therapy, 'cause You're the only one who's left here listening to me."

--Relient K


I think Matt Thiessen (Relient K's lead singer/song writer) got it right when he sang about things in his life that were drastically changing. In these lyrics he says he has "a death grip on this life always transitioning". After listening to this song over and over again I have come to totally agree with what he is saying...


1.) This life that we are living is always not what we expect it to be; it is ALWAYS transitioning. We are always being thrown curveballs and sooner or later we are not ready for them until its too late and we get smacked in the face by reality. I always seem to assume I have things figured out in my life. And usually immediately after, all my expectations are shattered into a million pieces.

2.) Even when these things in my life seem to so obviously not fit with everything else, I still try to hold onto them...the familiar and the comfortable. Stepping into the unknown is scary for anyone. It requires a lot of faith. I have this death grip on every part of my life. I feel like there needs to be a change in something, but I refuse to let it go. I think this is showing me something about my deeply rooted sin of trying to control EVERYTHING! Hmmmmmm...

3.) But, in the end, it is not up to me to decide but rather God. By stepping out into the unknown is a terrifying thought...but, what I think is more terrifying is not obeying the one true God when He blatantly tells you something. I know that putting my full faith and my entire being into His hands is a billion million times more comforting then trying to control it all myself. And even though this life of ours is ALWAYS changing, ALWAYS in transition, and NEVER what we think it will be...God never changes. And because of that, we can put our trust in Him.

He is the only one left listening to me, and I find comfort in that...



Isaish 40:28-31
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.


Romans 8:38,39
"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."


2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.


Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.