✌🏽 equipped

Music has always moved me. I could appreciate and relate to almost anything-- as long as it was good. Some songs it was the beat, and the composition. Other times it was the feelings it could bring out of me. Some had great lyrics that brought me to a specific time, and some songs were just so catchy they'd just land in your head and not leave for hours, days, or decades. My parents listened to some 80s music, or at least had some cassettes of it. Then my mom went through a country music phase. By that time, I was a little older and getting some of my own cassette singles and CDs from my favorite 90s artists. In my teens and early 20s, I listened to pop on the radio... think ORIGINAL "NOW" CDs. Once I got saved in 2015, I made the choice to switch to only worship music. (It really does have a huge impact on how I lived my life. Music is extremely influential, even for those who aren't musically or rhythmically inclined!) 

If you're walking with Jesus, you know there is very little you can actually control; and the music out and about in the world is one of them. I go to the car wash often with my membership- highly recommend by the way. The vacuum system they have is awesome! They have 2 different styles of vacuum per space, and about 20+ spaces. It's LOUD. So to keep the customers happy, they blast music even louder. Sometimes the cars will have their own radios blasting music of their liking; it's just a lot. One of the songs that was blaring at about 8:30 AM one sunny, Summer morning, was the song "2 legit 2 quit". Like it or not- it's catchy. And it's the kind of song that stays in your head on a loop. This particular song stuck with me a few days, and during these few days, I was presented the opportunity to step forward in obedience, or play it safe, DISOBEY, and stay put. I felt super convicted because I knew I was not only capable of doing this thing, but God had totally equipped me for the task ahead. Like I often do, I try to negotiate with God. <I hope you didn't laugh TOO HARD at me there....> And after hours, days of hashing it out in my head, I finally surrendered and realized that not only had God equipped me, I was too equipped to quit. 

Like I said in the beginning- music always has spoken to me. And God not only used a song to get through to me, He used a song that I will ALWAYS remember, will ALWAYS have in my head for days at a time, and will ALWAYS smile when I sing it; remembering His love and patience, how much He truly wants the best for me, and is always pursuing me. How does God speak to you- especially when He's wanting you to trust Him and be obedient?

You are the ONE He left the 99 for. You're also too equipped. Too equipped to quit.