This is your Life...

...Are you who you want to be?

Most of us have probably heard this song a few times. If not, it goes something like this:

This is Your Life by Switchfoot

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes.
This is your life and today is all you've got now.
Yeah, today is all you've ever had.
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
When the world was younger, and you had everything to lose

Yesterday is a kid in a corner
Yesterday is dead and over

This is your life...are you who you want to be.

The song goes on and on after that.
I've always love this song and every time I hear it I just want to belt it out at the top of lungs. Tonight I once again heard this song, except I SAW it at a totally new level. At youth group tonight we had a group of kids from CRCS (a christian school) and come do some dramas and worship with our youth group. At first, I'll admit, I wasn't too sure what to think of this whole thing and really wondered how good it was going to be. I was amazingly surprised and could definitely feel God there in the room. High school students put on some dramas to a few different type of songs.
I'd have to say this one was the best one for me. It's probably because I could relate to it so well. The students put on a drama of the "cool kids" and the "weird or outsider kids". I never was a "cool" kid in my high school. Of course I went to a high school of a graduating class of 450+. Anyways, even with that, I always found myself on the outside. The drama continued with how the "cool" kids or the kids in general would pick on certain people and bully them around. And how this kid that was bulling around, in the middle of all of this and everyone watching, got up and went to the kid and in the chorus of the song "This is your life, are you who you want to be"...the kid just sings it (well mock sings it). It just was amazing, because he was about to turn back around to this person that was just being a jerk and ask them if this is really the they want!

That takes some boldness...but it is God who brings the kid to be able to do this. And that one act then started a train reaction of that "then bully" going to other kids and stopping them from doing things he didn't see was right.

Just think if we all did this? If we all confronted people with "this is your life, are you who you want to be?" How would their reaction be. Some would probably laugh it off and some would probably be like, no, I hate my job... either way, this is a complete way for us to witness to others about our life in Jesus Christ.
If we are happy in our life, we need to show others this in our daily actions and in our own life...which is how our life should be...filled with Jesus Christ!

Thank you Jesus for bring these CRCS students to us tonight. I pray right now that what was done in that room this evening will stay with these young people and that many go home and even now are pondering on things! I ask that if there anything that needs to come out of this that these young students would seek out individuals to get help or comfort or someone to talk to. I pray that we all would observe about your lives and our lives in YOU. Are we who we want to be? Am I who I want to be?