O- Only Getting Started- Steven Curtis Chapman

“I was just a little kid when

I heard about You for the first time

And all I really, really knew for sure

Is You were God, I wanted to know You

And now the years have come and gone

I’m still singing that same song

You might think by now I would have reached the end”

I had the awesome privilege of growing up in a Christian home. I don’t remember when I heard about it for the first time, but I remember when the truth of God and the truth of all He was, hit me for the very first time.

I was twelve years old and was on vacation in New York as we went to visit some family friends. During the worship time of that service, I started to worship God fully for the first time. It was as if my eyes were opened to the beauty of God.

After the pastor preached, he invited anyone who wanted to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior to come to the front. I asked my mom if I could go, she obviously said, “Yes.” I ran to the altar and began walking with Jesus for the first time.

I also had the opportunity to attend a awesome youth group who taught me with their words and actions, what it meant to follow Jesus every day of my life. I helped out with the household chores more, and sought to be a encouragement to the lives of my fellow students at my private school.

At the end of my high school years, I received a journal in which my peers gave me words of encouragement. Words of affirmation is my love language, so that spoke volumes to me and my soul. After reading that journal one day, I said to myself, “My life could end right here, and I would be happy.”

“But the truth is,

I am only just beginning

I am only getting started to know You now

I’m only getting started

And when I start thinking, I’m getting close to the end,

You just smile at Me and say,

“Hey kid, you ain’t seen nothing yet”

Since that day so many years ago, God has taught me, through words of correction and discipline, that I am far from knowing Him in all his fullness. I only am just beginning to walk with Jesus even twenty-two years of beginning the journey in following Him.

I don’t know where you are in your faith journey. I don’t know if you are just beginning, or haven’t started one yet. I believe though, that God would want us to know that once we walk more closely with Him, we will begin to experience Him for all he truly is. We will then walk more in step with Jesus and follow Him in a closer way.

Throughout our lives, we must be careful not to get cocky as we walk closely to Jesus. Even when people offer us words of encouragement, we must ask God for him to use them to help us become more like Jesus.

So today, I urge you, friends, to hear the voice of God saying to you, “ Hey kid, you ain’t seen nothing yet”. Embrace the adventure of life as the adventure of following God is just beginning for you.