I’ve heard Mat Kearney’s Closer to Love on the radio several times over the past few weeks. At first, I didn’t really like the sound, but I think it has grown on me because of the meaning of the song. It talks about how at any given moment, something bad can happen that completely breaks us. I believe that God takes these situations and uses them to open eyes and pull people closer to Him. The events in our lives that shatter our sense of security and render us helpless can draw us towards God.
This morning, before prayer meeting, we were talking about martyrs and God’s eternal view of a situation. If God can bring one of His children home early and reach others that knew that person, I think it is worth his or her death. After all, they’re in a much better place than here. From a worldly perspective, we see a loved on taken from us, oftentimes violently. We can choose to focus on the pain, or we can see the loved one’s death as God sees it. God has a plan, and nobody dies simply to die.
A favorite quote by C.S. Lewis is this:
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
God opens our eyes through situations that bring us to our knees, and draws us closer to love.
