Under Pressure

You ever feel like the walls are closing in? Things have to be done now, not later, not in a little bit...but now. The bar has been raised, expectations are high. Time is running out...the clock is ticking...it will be here before you know it...are you ready....is everything together...is everyone and everything in place.

Pressure...it's coming down on you it's coming down on me...under pressure.

That's what I feel right now...pressure...some might say...hey just turn it over to God...let Him carry the load and the burden...relax...He will take care of it.

Really...really...is that how it works? Or does God let us walk through some times of uncertainty and let us experience a little pressure to help mold us and make us into the kind of Disciples He wants us to be.

Well...when you listen to the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie you hear these words:

Mm ba ba de
Um bum ba de
Um bu bu bum da de
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure - that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Um ba ba be
Um ba ba be
De day da
Ee day da - that's o.k.
It's the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher
Pressure on people - people on streets
Day day de mm hm
Da da da ba ba
O.k.
Chippin' around - kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
Ee do ba be
Ee da ba ba ba
Um bo bo
Be lap
People on streets - ee da de da de
People on streets - ee da de da de da de da
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher high high
Pressure on people - people on streets
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love
but it's so slashed and torn
Why - why - why ?
Love love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And loves dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure

Lord God please help me this day to deal with this pressure...Lord some of it is pressure from others and some of it is self imposed pressure. Lord ease the burden and help shape me into the Christ follower you have called me to be. Thank you for your love, your grace and your Son...amen...