I Will Follow Him

"I will follow Him
follow Him wherever He may go
And near Him I always will be
For nothing can keep me away.
He is my destiny


I will follow Him.
Ever since He touched my heart I knew
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep,
keep me away -
away from His love."

A song from the movie Sister Act


Funny the things that touch us.  I remember vividly the night over two years ago: We were watching a movie at home in France with a couple of dear friends.  The movie was Sister Act, and at one point in the story Whoopi Goldberg transformed the convent choir from a cacophony of nuns who couldn't carry a tune to save their lives into a beautiful, harmonious, moving ensemble.

I was going through a particularly difficult period with the team I was leading, and I was desperate to hear from God.  As soon as they sang this song in the movie, the tears began to flow.  I couldn't explain what I was feeling, but this song - from a secular, sometimes irreverent film touched something deep within me and I rewound it and listened again and again, impervious to my own tears and the others who were sitting in the room.  Somehow this song hit me at the point of my need at that moment - a need to hear God's voice, a need to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He was there, and that He knew the point of my struggle.  The song came like a bolt of light straight from heaven into my soul, and in that moment I found a little bit of healing.

We can find God anywhere, at any time.  He is not limited to speaking only through His Word or through a church service, for the whole world is His church, and every sound, every song, every whisper of wind is His instrument to communicate His love to us.  He is speaking and He wants us to hear His voice.  All we need to do is listen.