Dancing Trees

Today I feel alone and inadequate. I feel like nothing that I do matters, like everything I do is wrong, like I will never be good enough. It hurts. I was sitting on my friends couch the other day and looking out the window. From the angle I was laying at I could only see the tops of the trees. It was a little windy outside and the trees were swaying in the wind. We were listening to a worship CD and as I watched the trees it was almost as if they were swaying to the beat of the music. It was amazing to me that in the midst of my inadequacy and inability to worship, the trees did. I think maybe it’s that whole “the rocks will cry out” thing that Jesus talked about. Maybe it was just God telling me that it doesn’t take much to worship him, just being created by him. It doesn’t matter how much I lack or how worthless I think I am because worship isn’t about me; it’s about Him. You know, I might not mean anything to anyone else, but even if that’s the case He loves me. In Romans it says that NOTHING can separate us from the love of Christ. There’s nothing we could ever do to make Him love us less. NOTHING. There’s nothing we could ever lack to make Him love us less. NOTHING. Nothing we could ever say, nothing we could ever be, nothing we could ever be confused by, nothing we could ever imagine, NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. That’s what makes the trees worship; because that is one powerful love.







Romans 8:38-39 (the message)
I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.