God is bigger than your test grade.

I was sitting here thinking about how sometimes I can feel like I am being defined as a test grade. And as I am not a good test taker, you can see why I am bothered by that...

But I am trying to remind myself that I am not defined by a grade. So I came up with this version of "God Is Bigger [Than The Booggie Man]" from Veggie Tales.

The lyrics that I made go as follows (it works the best if you listen to the song and sing/ think of my lyrics while it is playing!) Enjoy and remember, you are not defined by your test grade. Study hard, but it does not define you!:

You were lying in your bed,
You were feeling kind of sleepy,
But you couldn't close your book because the chapter wasn’t ending

Were those standard deviations in the book?
Was it the mean after all?
There was something big and scary putting numbers in your brain.

Now your heart is beating like a drum,
Your skin is getting clammy,
There's a hundred word problems jumping right onto your test!

Bob: What are you going to do?
Junior: I'm going to quit college
Bob: No. You don't have to do anything!
Junior: What? Why?
Bob: Because...

[CHORUS:]
God is bigger than your test grade.
He's bigger than statistics or chemistry.
Oh, God is bigger than your test grade,
And he's watching out for you and me.

Junior:
..So when I'm lying in my bed,
And my anxiety starts creeping,
I'll just laugh and say "Hey! I’ll figure it out!"

And get back to my working.

'Cause I know that God's the biggest, and He's watching all the while,
So when I get scared, I'll think of Him, close my eyes and
smiiiiiiiiiiiiile!!!

God is bigger than your test grade.
He's bigger than statistics or chemistry.
Oh, God is bigger than your test grade,
And he's watching out for you and me.

Problem #1: So are you confused?
Junior: Just a little.
Problem #2: Are you worried?
Junior: Not a bit! I know whatever's gonna happen, that God can handle it!

Problem #3: I'm sorry that I scared you when you saw me on the page.
Junior: Well that's ok, 'cause now I know that God is taking care of me!

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE.

"Here I am. Send me."

"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 

"Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" 

And I said, "Here am I. Send me!""- Isaiah 6:8

Hello all!

In the Bible we are called to do the Lord's work and to spread the gospel. This can be done in many shapes and forms from preaching in a church, sharing the gospel with a friend, or going on a missions trip across states or across seas. Each of His disciples are being called to share the gospel with our neighbors and with the world!

We are not being called to save everyone, only Jesus can save, but we are called to plant seeds. To plant seeds everywhere we go. With our every action and our every word, We are called to do this as an individual, but more importantly, we are called to do this as the Body of Christ.

In Mark 16:15 we see God's call on us to spread the gospel, "And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."

We also see this being played out in the Bible in the book of Acts when Paul takes his three missionary journeys.

Old school music? What?

At church on Sunday we sang the hymn, "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." Singing this song has kind of gotten me on a streak of old school Christian songs!

I think I have gotten stuck on these songs because they remind me of the seldom times that my gram would take me to her church, and my pap playing them on the piano for me when I was younger and showed him my precious masterpiece of randomly slammed keys! (:

Some of the songs that I have been stuck on are:
"There Is Power in the Blood" 
"By and By"
"The Lily of the Valley"
"Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus"
"Victory in Jesus"
"Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus"
"I've Got Peace Like A River"
"Just a Closer Walk With Thee"
"Hallelujah What A Savior"

For more songs, check out my Spotify playlist here

What are your favorite old school Christian songs?!?!