As I experience more and more of Christian life, and live in community with more and more people and share their experiences, I increasingly realize how little experience has to do with faith. I remember counseling a young man who said if God just did something powerful in front of him, around him or to him it would be so much easier to walk in faith. I stopped him and said no it wouldn’t be easier. If God came to you now and turned your water into wine, walked on water in your pool, rose your family from the dead it would make just as much difference to you as the disciples or the crowds. You’d be astonished but, the next day still have little increase in faith.

Faith is a gift of the Spirit, not an artifact of experience. This was moving in my spirit as we sang Everlasting God amongst a sea of uncertainty in the congregation. I think everyone in the congregation, including myself, needed a reminder of Christ as our rock, never changing, unfailing God. He is the same, extends the same grace, love and truth. The song is such a humbling reminder and confession of who our God is. He is good, he will provide, he will sustain, he will carry, he will speak, he will lead, he will illuminate, he will comfort, he will heal and he will rescue. Thank you Lord.

1. The World Can’t Take It Away – Ryan Delmore
2. How I Live – Kyle Campos (loop available)
3. God of This City – Bluetree (loop available)
4. Our God Reigns – Delirious (loop available)
5. Everlasting God – New Life (loop available)

This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.

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