All I need is You

"All I need is You." I hear this a lot in worship songs, and it's a statement that I think often doesn't get a lot of thought. As Americans, we don't get a lot of chances to see if this rings true for us. Rarely, if ever, do we get to a point in life when we literally don't have anything but Him. Or even mostly nothing but Him. 99% of the time, we have everything and Him. We say "All I need is You," but we act as if we need everything else, too. 

Sometimes, God calls us to places where all we have is Him. It is then that the sincerity of our proclaiming, "All I need is You," is tested. Most of the time I think we either aren't listening for His voice calling us into situations that demand we rely completely on Him or we hear Him and pretend we didn't. This can come through material possessions or money, God calling us to give away large sums of money or give up our lush homes and excessive possessions so we can be in a better position to help others. But this doesn't always come through material things. Sometimes God calls us to a place that demands that He is our security mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. 

For example, God recently told me that I'm not to go to the Honor Academy. If you don't know me well, this might sound like a small thing. Let me tell you, this is no small thing.  I have been planning to go to the HA for 3 years now, and I've been fundraising for a year. I've raised somewhere between eleven and twelve thousand dollars to go. And now God, just out of the blue, tells me not to go. What?! Amidst all the craziness of having to re-adjust my thinking and having to tell everyone that I'm not going, God whispers. He says, "I AM your security. I AM your destination and your journey. I AM your abiding place, your safe refuge. The HA is not your security. You do not rest in knowing that you are going there. You rest in ME." 

All I need is Him. I don't need the "security" of knowing where I'm going. All I need is Him. 

Abba, let this ring true more every day.