Echo

Can you recall a kind word someone said to you last year? I mean in detail, word for word, can you recite that phrase to yourself now after a year? I have a hard time remembering the encouraging words said to me by others after some time has passed. Yet I can proclaim the pessimistic phrases said to me ten years ago. Why do we hold onto the negative so much easier than we do the positive? Why are the echoes of our past more like haunting melodies than joyous songs of praise?

My song for the last few months has been Echo by Elevation Worship. I sing it loud and proud in my car.

When my mind says I’m not good enough

God, You’re enough for me, yeah

I’ve decided I’m not giving up

‘Cause You won’t give up on me

You won’t give up on me

Your love is holding on and it won’t let go

I feel it breaking out like an echo

Your love is holding on and it won’t let go

I feel it breaking out like an echo

Echo in my soul

May we all hear the still small voice of God as he whispers, “There’s My masterpiece. There’s My work of art. There’s My child I love.” And may we tune out the voices that only live to push us down. When we start to believe we are not good enough to accomplish our dreams we are basically calling God a liar when He says we are good enough.

May the echos you hear lead you closer to Him. If they drag you away, they are not from Him.

Do you feel it breaking out?

Breaking out?

Oh, His love is holding on and it won’t let go

But once we decide to hear Him, we can’t sit idly with that passion. We have to echo it out to others. Who knows, your words may be the words that one person was needing to hear to drown out their negative voices. We are to be reflections and imitators of Christ…we are to be His echo in this world.

Be His echo.

Peace