Multiplied

This blog post is yet again brought to you by "Rivers in the Wasteland". At this rate, I am going to end up blogging through that entire album before I leave for the summer. Specifically, the song that inspired this post is entitled "Mulitpied" and it is my favorite song from the album. In an interview that I heard (Yes, I'm a total fangirl when it comes to NTB.), they were talking about what this song meant to them. The short version of the interview is that they want their music, their one little gift and offering, to be multiplied into something bigger than they are and could ever do.

I have spent the past few weeks praying that over this year's trip. At the end of the day, three weeks isn't a long time. Three weeks of building relationships, friendships, and memories doesn't really scratch the surface of the fifty-two weeks in the year. But I have seen what a small offering of saying, "Here you go, Lord. Three weeks of my life completely turned over to you. Take my giftings as an athletic trainer, decent cook, athlete, 'Paul'-ness, and organizer. Take them and multiply them." Looking back at previous years, He has done just that. And not only on the trips, but in my life as well. There are events that happened five years ago that I am now being allowed to see part of the reason behind. He is using the small offerings that I made then, when I really had no idea that I was even making an offering, and He is multiplying them right now. It is beautiful to watch and I am so thankful that I am a part of it.

Your love is like radiant diamonds, bursting inside us we cannot contain. Your love will surely come find us, like blazing wildfires singing Your name. God of mercy, sweet love of mine, I have surrendered to Your design. May this offering stretch across the sky, these hallelujahs be multiplied. - "Multiplied"