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Saturday, January 29, 2005
Yesterday, we looked at the results of who we now are in Christ, and I asked you to think about the results of what that would look like in your day to day life if you really had a grasp of that.
For me, the hard-rocking band Stavesacre (www.stavesacre.com) hit the nail on the head with their song Shiv. Here are the lyrics, from their website:
i'm crawling out of my skin
i hope i get under yours
so many times before
but you still wanna know why
i won't just lay down and die
what did you expect
i think that i could guess
but this weight is lifted and i'm like
back from the dead
and i'm feeling kinda strange
i'm not the same, and i think i like the change
nothing lost, just cut away
nothing left to hinder me
pushing on, stronger every day
leaning into the wind that used to carry me
(nothing left to hinder me)(*backing vocal)
the last shot
nearly killed me
eternity lifted me again
(nothing left to hinder me)
oh, how i want to be
an offense, an unsettling presence in this life
why'd you try to take me out
why try to keep me down?
to get my eyes off me
down each ugly street
too many needs, too many
souls on their knees
and where have i been?
too much is me and mine
too much is wasting time
with the cares of this life and now
i understand and i'm
i'm on my way i feel like a man
and i, i think i like the change
nothing lost, just cut away
nothing left to hinder me
pushing on, stronger every day
leaning into the wind that used to carry me
(nothing left to hinder me)
the last shot nearly killed me
eternity lifted me again
(nothing left to hinder me)
oh how i want to be
an offense, an unsettling presence in this life
why'd you try to take me out, why try to keep me down?
See, your new identity has everything to do with how you live your life. What's interesting in this song is the interplay I kind of get from the idea that others (I'm guessing from other Christians) are trying to keep him down, take him out and giving him shots that nearly kill him.
But don't think I don't love the idea that he wants to be an offense...
...an unsettling presence in this life.
And it all comes from his new identity in Christ.
So, I want to ask you again today, because it is so vitally important, to read the verses from yesterday, and ask yourself what your life will be like...
...if the crud is not lost, but cut away.
...if nothing, absolutely nothing, was to hinder you.
...if you pushed on toward maturity instead of staying on a "plateau."
...if you got your eyes off yourself.
...if you stopped thinking about "me" and "mine."
...if you stopped wasting time with the cares of this life and focused on The Kingdom.
I think you'd like the change...
Brent 5:16 AM
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