be different than how I thought he was … was when we wrote “ Dancing on the Waves ”. And that lyric ( I honestly think Martin might ’ ve said it ) said , “ I dare you to believe how much I love you .” Now that lyric coming from God ’ s heart was like , wait , what ? Like , I dare you . I love you . Like , I don ’ t know . And then , ( I could talk about this forever ) but the biggest thing for me was when I felt like God ’ s spirit said to me , “ I not only love you , but I like you ”. Like God enjoys us as the unique individuals He has made us to be . And that is so incredibly frank sometimes , and “ I like you ” can mean more than “ I love you ” ( laughing ) You know ? And I believe God likes us .
[ WM ] Well that ’ s good for my readers to hear . I often tell peope , “ Don ’ t judge God by what
His kids do ”. All right . So last thing here . Our readers are worship leaders , worship band mates and tech teams . Our readers serve in the trenches weekend after weekend in their local church . What would you say to encourage these folks ?
[ Martin ] I would just say you ’ re not unseen .
[ Franni ] Yes . I agree .
[ Martin ] I think oftentimes there ’ s something in the human heart that just gravitates toward wanting attention and wanting to be in the spotlight . And you don ’ t even have to be an extrovert to want to be liked and want to be loved .
I think that is ingrained in the human heart . And I think honestly it started as a really pure thing to wanna be like Franni was talking about , liked and loved by God . And somewhere along the lines , you know the enemy got in there and twisted it and turned our attention from being loved and liked by Him , to being loved and liked by the world .
So I just encourage them when scripture talks about storing your treasures in heaven , that ’ s not a verse that sounds and feels good on the tongue or sounds real cute , or whatever . Like that ’ s a real thing , that treasures are being stored in heaven right now based on what we ’ re doing here on earth .
It ’ s not like we ’ re trying to do good deeds to
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