Me Without You

Today I got the opportunity to have a day off of school as the teachers had parent teacher conferences and such.  And you know those day when you're so excited to get the day off, and then you get to the middle of the day, and you're like, now what?  Well, since I wasn't to thrilled about homework, I contemplated some things.  I realized that life is tough.  Don't know about you, but sometimes life just gets hard, you run into some walls, trip and fall flat on your face, struggle, whatever it is.  Sometimes life just sucks.  And for a while I got all caught up in a pitty party for myself, complaining about how life is so tough and mean to me, wah wah wah.  But then God plowed me with a 2 by 4.  I realized, life gets so much harder when I try to go through it without God.  Like, when things get tough, and i lose focus and start to focus on me, life can get pretty scary.  But when my focus changes from me, myself, and I, to God and his amazing love and sufficient grace, my problems shrink down to manageable sizes.  Life becomes not only manageable, but liveable, and not only liveable, and not only liveable, but loveable.  God takes everything we have and makes it so that we can do it, because in life, without God, we can't do it.  TobyMac's song Me Without You i think describes the way things can be and often are without God.

"And where would I be
Without You...

I'd be packin' my bags when I need to stay
I'd be chasin' every breeze that blows my way
I'd be building my kingdom just to watch it fade away
It's true
That's me without You"

And that is truly where I was, and where we've all been before.  That is me without You.  So my challenge for everyone who reads this, and for myself as well, is to go from me without You, to me and You.  And hope that is ya'll's goal too.