I Love You Lord

There have been so many times, when in a room surrounded with 30+ kids...
kids that are loud and don't always pay attention,
kids that need to be reminded to stay in their seats, to raise their hand, reminded to use their inside voices,
kids that need reminded over and over and over again....

It's in this space that I have met God in a way that I have never experienced before.

We have been learning a new song, Children and Kings, by Gungor.




If you don't think that kids get it.
If you don't think they are grown up enough or sophisticated enough or mature enough to really get it.
If you have ever thought that what happens in a room full of kids isn't really church....
isn't really worship....
isn't really that important....

Well, you have never stood in the back of the room and watched kids sing out these words...
"I Love You Lord"...
And not just sing them.
Mean them.

You have never watched a 4 year old little girl close her eyes and lift up her hands as she sang.
Not because she saw someone else do it first.
Not because she knew she was supposed to.
But because she was made to love Him.
Because her heart knows no other way than to lose herself in a song about loving Him.

It is easy to separate us.
To divide us into groups.
Adults. Students. Kids.
And all for very good reasons.

The truth is that in the end...
we all singing the same song.