Cred că dacă te-aș întreba ce este credința, mi-ai da răspunsul din Evrei 11:1. Cei din închinare cunosc definiția credinței, mai ales cei care au mers la școala duminicală când erau mici:)).
Am început să citesc cartea lui Brian Houston – Live, Love, Lead (nu am ajuns decât la pagina 10), dar încă din primele rânduri, am rămas surprinsă despre pasiunea și entuziasmul lui de a vorbi despre credință. Spunea că tot ce are, tot ce înseamnă Hillsong, este prin credință, prin pășirea lor în necunoscut.
Istoria unei slujiri curate, nu se contruiește altfel, decât prin credință
În primele pagini ale cărții menționate mai sus, autorul povestește pe scurt povestea lui Taya Smith. Cu toții am auzit de Taya și cu toții știm piesa Oceans, dar fost interesant să descopăr cum a ajuns să cânte această melodie.
M-am gândit să redau fragmentul din carte, pentru că cred că sunt persoane care vor fi încurajate de povestea ei. Voi transcrie cuvintele autorului din engleză:
,,It was in late 2012 and Taya Smith, one of our talented young worship leaders and a member of Hillsong UNITED, was simply just another face in the crowd. Her singing ability went largely unnoticed in our church arena, yet she faithfully served behind the scenes in our youth ministry.
Taya was working in retail and was forced because of holiday hours to take some time off, during which she had planned to visit with her family in rural New South Wales. But she had waited too long to buy a plane ticket, and now the flights were too expensive. So she was stuck in Sydney with one week’s holiday—the same week that our church was recording the album Glorious Ruins. She went into church that Sunday night and was told to “be ready to hop up” at the end of the recording if there was time and join the rest of our youth band Young and Free. That night she sang her heart out, and my son, Joel Houston, took notice of it.
That following Tuesday morning, Taya woke up with a message on her phone from Mike Chislett, Hillsong UNITED’s producer, asking if she would come down to the studio to do some backing vocals for the new UNITED project. Taya doesn’t have her driver’s license, so for two days in a row she caught multiple buses and trains from her home in the south of Sydney, and then she rode her skateboard from the train station to the UNITED studio in North Rocks—about one and a half hours each way. It was during those two days that Joel gave her a new song to learn, and Taya recorded “Oceans.”
The story goes that once she finished the first take, she turned to the boys and nervously said, “I can do better.” Taken aback, they replied, “That was pretty good, though.” (If you have ever heard Taya sing, you can imagine how much heart and passion she puts into absolutely everything she does). I love how Taya recounts riding the bus home that night and recalling the prayer that she had prayed only two weeks before: asking God to either open or shut the door on an opportunity to sing professionally—and she felt that the Lord is asking her to lay that dream aside and to step into the great unknown. The rest is history.”
Taya a ales să lase visul ei în mâna lui Dumnezeu și să pășească în necunosct. Dumnezeu a văzut inima ei, și… ei bine… restul e istorie.
O încredere neclintită în lucrurile care nu se văd. Necunoscutul poate fi înspăimântător, dar în necunoscut ești cel mai dependent de Dumnezeu. Ca și închinător, acesta este cel mai bun loc în care te poți afla – dependență totală de Dumnezeu.