O Great God Who Chooses Me

Sunday night was the end of 'Candidates Weekend' and if you're not a Salvo, you won't know what that means.

So Candidates weekend is a time when people that feel God has called them to be ministers (Officers) in The Salvation Army reaffirm that calling, pray about it, talk about it - all that sort of thing and it's also a time where people can offer their service to God in whatever way, shape or form that might take. So basically it's a time where people recognise what God is calling them do in their lives and act upon it. That's my interpretation of it anyway!

So on Sunday night it was all about what you're doing for Jesus pretty much and if you're not doing anything, what is he asking you to do, what are your skills, gifts and abilities?

Paula, a lady on the panel, reminded me that we are all ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ - something i like to hold close to my heart but that i realised I'd lost sight of. It was a good reminder!

I shared about my camp experience, which didn't go so well, and all the things that God had called ME to.

At the end of the service, we sang 'In Christ Alone' which was so amazing considering it was a song we'd sing alot at camp, but it made me want to be back there and I've been having a down kind of week because the photos that i look at which are pinned up on my cupboard seem so surreal now. I almost sometimes wonder where these memories came from.

When i first went to camp, three months seemed like such a long time and now i don't know where it went! I don't understand how it can seem like such a tiny fragment out of my life because camp and the people there mean so much to me and i never want to lose that memory or have it become so insignificant.

Anyway, that's beside the point (i'm great at doing that!). The main reason for my blog is a prayer that Emma shared with us at the end and i liked it so much that I just wanna blog it! I particularly LOVE the first stanza!

I hope you enjoy it like i did!

O Great God Who Chooses Me

O great God who chooses me
Who calls to me and picks me
Who looks past all of the things that others see
Those things that cause them to pass me by

O great God who chooses me
Who calls to me and picks me
Even when I am running from you
Even when I am hiding from you
Even when I don't want to be foud

O Great God who chooses me
Who calls to me and picks me
Even after I have turned away yet again
Who comes to me after I have messed up yet again


O great God who chooses me
Even after i have chosen my will over yours. (wow, this lesson i learnt at camp!!!)

O Great God who chooses me
Who calls to me and picks me
I lift my heart and my hands to you
I come offering who I am to you
And asking you to take this small gift
Take these few loaves and fishes
And break me
Use me to feed and to clothe
And to love

I come knowing full well that I will still run sometimes
Knowing in my heart of hearts that I am not strong enough
Or patient enough
Or brave enough
Or confident enough
To continue to go where you are leading
But knowing that - beyond all reason -
You are the great God who chooses me
Who calls to me and picks me
And right now, in this moment
I lift my life to you in worship and in praise

O great God who chooses me
Who calls to me and picks me
Today I choose you.