October 12, 2003
Enter In
I have had another worship song in my head and I think it really is a message to me from God himself to remind me of what He has done in my life and how even when I was walking through unimaginable pain, He was with me. I heard it around the same time that I learned " I Will Trust in You" I don't have the music or I would credit the composer and even link up like I did last week with Duane Clark... I know that the great Fernando Ortega performed this song at the Calvary Chapel Worship Leaders Conference in the summer of 1996 which was the first time that I heard it.....The story behind the song was heart breaking...The writer (a poet and lyracist) lost her husband and child in an auto accident, she found out she was expecting soon after, but it was not to be and the babe that was to come was still born... It was said that the nurses in the maternity ward a few hours after the fruitless travail heard her singing softly....
I Am the Good Shepard
I laid down my life for you
Enter in, Enter in, Enter in...
I Am the Good Shepard
As the Father knows me I know you
I know you,I know you,I know you....
And no one can take you away-
And no one can take you away!
You are The Good Shepard
You laid down your life for me!
I will enter in, Enter in , enter in...
You are The Good Shepard
As the Father knows you, You know Me
You know me,You know Me, You know Me....
And no one can take You away,
Yes no one can take You away!
Its a deceptively simple song, you might say "yeah so what"...But its the hardest thing in the world to just trust and "enter in"to what Gods plan is. And this is what you must do...What we all must do... Just as the sheep would enter the sheep fold ahead of the shepard so he could guard the rear, trusting in his direction, so I must trust...I am the worst at this. I want to know how things are going to work out all the time ahead of time yet God is here and He will not leave me or push me away, as has happened so often in my life.
I don't know what is going to happen. The store, with Woody getting a job or anything but I need to remind myself that I can choose to enter in and not let things that really don't matter get me down so much. Because as the song says
No one can take Him away!
Later....I mentioned to Woody that I had used this song in my blog and he remembered that Jana Alexander wrote it. He also told me that he thought another guy wrote the song I used last week. So I checked it out and sure enough, its true, Kevin Green wrote it, so I will be ammending that days blog. Be blessed.....
