#10 Daddy

Pretty much anytime Breana gets into my car she asks me to put on #10. Now let me explain just what #10 is.

#10 is track the 10^th track on Jesus Culture CD titled Come Away…the song…One Thing Remains.

Now a lot of times I don’t complain when Breana requests this song, I absolutely love the song, it speaks to me.

But then there are times when I am like “how many times can one listen to this song”. So one day I asked her why she wanted to listen to the song. She replied “because I love that song”. I asked her why and she said “because I like to sing to Jesus”…I know… I was like aweee too!! But that isn’t the best part.

I asked her why she likes to sing to Jesus…this one blew me away…she said “because Jesus died for me, the least I can do is sing to him”!

I almost ran into the car in front of me!

How is it that a 5 year old can articulate something like this, with confidence and assurance?

She likes to sing the song because of a. she likes the song b. she likes to sing to Jesus c. Jesus died for her the least she could do was to sing to him…every time I think about this I get goose bumps.

Here I am 31 years old and I try to justify why I don’t sing to Jesus because of the day I had, or the situation I am in, but a 5 year old gets it!

Is it because life hasn’t brought her to her knees and showed her that “just singing to Jesus” isn’t a normal reaction?

Maybe.

Is it that she is still innocent and hasn’t been exposed to all the hurt and rejection?

Maybe.

Or is it that we use the aforementioned “reasons” as a scapegoat to skip out on praising our savior because we feel like we aren’t getting anything out of it?

Do we view worship as a service…for us? A way for us to feel good about throwing some songs upward to God?

So back to Breana. While she is singing One Thing Remains, she really…really sings loud on one particular verse:

“Your love never fails, it never gives up, it never runs out on me”

She has even started to get our 2 year old Jacob to start chiming in at the end…he now sings “on me”.

How awesome?

How innocent?

How beautiful?