There are a few glitches in this video. I trust you enjoy the song as well as I do. I am not sure I have heard this one by Steven Curtis Chapman. I think where have I been…in my own little world.

Psalms 13:1-6 (Amplified Bible)
HOW LONG will You forget me, O Lord? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? ² How long must I lay up cares within me and have sorrow in my heart day after day? How long shall my enemy exalt himself over me? ³ Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten the eyes [of my faith to behold Your face in the pitchlike darkness], lest I sleep the sleep of death, ⁴ Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over him, and those that trouble me rejoice when I am shaken. ⁵ But I have trusted, leaned on, and been confident in Your mercy and loving-kindness; my heart shall rejoice and be in high spirits in Your salvation. ⁶ I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.

I chose this last passage for the Message, but I would like to encourage you to read it from the King James or the Amplified Bible to better acquaint yourself with the text rather than in story form.

Isaiah 49:1-26 (from the Message)
Listen, far-flung islands, pay attention, faraway people: God put me to work from the day I was born. The moment I entered the world he named me. ² He gave me speech that would cut and penetrate. He kept his hand on me to protect me. He made me his straight arrow and hid me in his quiver. ³ He said to me, “You’re my dear servant, Israel, through whom I’ll shine.” ⁴ But I said, “I’ve worked for nothing. I’ve nothing to show for a life of hard work. Nevertheless, I’ll let God have the last word. I’ll let him pronounce his verdict.” ⁵ “And now,” God says, this God who took me in hand from the moment of birth to be his servant, To bring Jacob back home to him, to set a reunion for Israel— What an honor for me in God’s eyes! That God should be my strength! ⁶ He says, “But that’s not a big enough job for my servant— just to recover the tribes of Jacob, merely to round up the strays of Israel. I’m setting you up as a light for the nations so that my salvation becomes global!” ⁷ God, Redeemer of Israel, The Holy of Israel, says to the despised one, kicked around by the nations, slave labor to the ruling class: “Kings will see, get to their feet—the princes, too— and then fall on their faces in homage Because of God, who has faithfully kept his word, The Holy of Israel, who has chosen you.” ⁸ God also says: “When the time’s ripe, I answer you. When victory’s due, I help you. I form you and use you to reconnect the people with me, To put the land in order, to resettle families on the ruined properties. ⁹ I tell prisoners, ‘Come on out. You’re free!’ and those huddled in fear, ‘It’s all right. It’s safe now.’ There’ll be foodstands along all the roads, picnics on all the hills— ¹⁰ Nobody hungry, nobody thirsty, shade from the sun, shelter from the wind, For the Compassionate One guides them, takes them to the best springs. ¹¹ I’ll make all my mountains into roads, turn them into a superhighway. ¹² Look: These coming from far countries, and those, out of the north, These streaming in from the west, and those from all the way down the Nile!” ¹³ Heavens, raise the roof! Earth, wake the dead! Mountains, send up cheers! God has comforted his people. He has tenderly nursed his beaten-up, beaten-down people. ¹⁴ But Zion said, “I don’t get it. God has left me. My Master has forgotten I even exist.” ¹⁵ “Can a mother forget the infant at her breast, walk away from the baby she bore? But even if mothers forget, I’d never forget you—never. ¹⁶ Look, I’ve written your names on the backs of my hands. The walls you’re rebuilding are never out of my sight. ¹⁷ Your builders are faster than your wreckers. The demolition crews are gone for good. ¹⁸ Look up, look around, look well! See them all gathering, coming to you? As sure as I am the living God”—God’s Decree— “you’re going to put them on like so much jewelry, you’re going to use them to dress up like a bride. ¹⁹ “And your ruined land? Your devastated, decimated land? Filled with more people than you know what to do with! And your barbarian enemies, a fading memory. ²⁰ The children born in your exile will be saying, ‘It’s getting too crowded here. I need more room.’ ²¹ And you’ll say to yourself, ‘Where on earth did these children come from? I lost everything, had nothing, was exiled and penniless. So who reared these children? How did these children get here?’ ” ²² The Master, God, says: “Look! I signal to the nations, I raise my flag to summon the people. Here they’ll come: women carrying your little boys in their arms, men carrying your little girls on their shoulders. ²³ Kings will be your babysitters, princesses will be your nursemaids. They’ll offer to do all your drudge work— scrub your floors, do your laundry. You’ll know then that I am God. No one who hopes in me ever regrets it.” ²⁴ Can plunder be retrieved from a giant, prisoners of war gotten back from a tyrant? ²⁵ But God says, “Even if a giant grips the plunder and a tyrant holds my people prisoner, I’m the one who’s on your side, defending your cause, rescuing your children. ²⁶ And your enemies, crazed and desperate, will turn on themselves, killing each other in a frenzy of self-destruction. Then everyone will know that I, God, have saved you—I, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

I am sure there have been many of us that have felt and had this same conversation with the Lord. I need to let God be God of my life rather than trying to dictate, tell Him what I think is right for me and mine. I desire to say God be my God, for I am not!

I want to thank the talented man, Steven Curtis Chapman, for allowing God to be God of his life and sharing his talent and life with us. I also thank the one who took time to put this song to a video to share with the rest of us. Lord bless you and your families.

Lord bless you and have a blessed day.