REDEEM...
I feel the weakness in my skin
No longer at peace
But at war from within
I cry in pain
But in Him I remain
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
If it wasn’t for this death kiss
My body’s natural affliction
Like a stinging cut to the wrist
I don’t want to do it on my own
I don’t want to end up in Hell all alone
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
Jehovah-rapha, I'd ask You to forgive me,
But I know Your help I'll deny,
I just don’t want to live another lie.
So all I can do is cry in pain,
Cry in pain for what remains.
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
I say to myself then, Will this be my ruin?
Should I hide inside my shadow
Till hellfire comes or I admit my wrongdoing?
Because what gets me is this quiet cull,
And so failure becomes my secret canticle.
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
And yes, I know Your story,
How You left Your Father in Heaven,
How You were emptied of all Your glory.
To be forsaken by the One You love,
You came to earth to die for those You love.
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
But I just stood there as we mocked Him,
Remembering, all You said was,
“Please… Father, forgive them.”
Telling us, Fight for the God of love.
Urging us, Fight for the God of love.
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
Lord, Your love never came in disguise,
You laid it all out there,
Only asking that we not compromise.
Help me rise above all of this impurity.
Grant me solace amidst my insecurity.
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
This isn’t just another dance,
It is my heart’s cry,
Calling once again for innocence.
Jah, You know, my heart’s rebellion is not of the chosen kind
Only the result of my inherent design.
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
Lord, I ask, for these things that I have seen and done,
Father, please forgive me,
Bless me in the sacrifice of Your Son.
So I surrender, I surrender all to You – All that I am, my pride, my anger
Just to get a glimpse – of Your hope, of Your love.
Oh God, how I want to share Heaven with you...
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
On Jesus and Relevancy...
this is something my friend Bethany wrote. I thought it was really cool and wanted to run it past you guys. Let me know your thoughts.
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On Jesus and relevancy...
I think there is a philosophical disservice done to the concept of salvation through belief in the "person of Jesus Christ." The invitation is unattractive in its seeming exlusiveness: that all men must come to the recognition of a single path of "enlightenment" contained in a particular individual. What I think has been lost, misrepresented, or deemphasized is the philosophy Christ embodies. The point of emphasis of salvation does not rest simply, though necessarily, in his person alone, but equally on his representation. Perhaps the general fear for this line of thinking is the slippery slope: that to focus on Christ as a philosophy and not as a person would lead to alternative means to God. But such a reduction is not inevitable. For the philosophy of Christ includes his physicality, his humanness. In fact, the very reality of his humanity is what makes salvation through him possible at all, on multiple levels. But where Christ becomes distasteful to the thinker, philosopher, or skeptic is on account of what he has been reduced to. Not only is salvation through Christ open-ended and all-encompassing, but the most inclusive creed of all regarding everything we can recognize as absolutes. What Christians have done in my experience is created sub-cultures and boxes that has left vital elements of truth in the cold. They have excluded the secular world from their indoctrinated applications of his truth in an attempt to create protective hedges from falsifications, from sin. This is not done without seemingly good intentions. Yet it leaves some of us wondering if there "weren't more out there." Having experienced truth elsewhere, Jesus Christ in turn appears lacking, close-minded, and irrelevant. But if we are able to burn these boxes, we will discover that what we are drawn to outside of these self-erected bubbles is still represented in him. When we can enjoy all truth as God's truth, and remember that Christ is God's very essence embodied, it frees us to concentrate all our philosophy of righteousness, goodness, and truth on him and him alone. The fact that God in his graciousness did indeed concentrate all truth into one individual is not exclusive, but infinitely kind. It leaves us looking to one man for answers- rather than the entirety of the cosmos.
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On Jesus and relevancy...
I think there is a philosophical disservice done to the concept of salvation through belief in the "person of Jesus Christ." The invitation is unattractive in its seeming exlusiveness: that all men must come to the recognition of a single path of "enlightenment" contained in a particular individual. What I think has been lost, misrepresented, or deemphasized is the philosophy Christ embodies. The point of emphasis of salvation does not rest simply, though necessarily, in his person alone, but equally on his representation. Perhaps the general fear for this line of thinking is the slippery slope: that to focus on Christ as a philosophy and not as a person would lead to alternative means to God. But such a reduction is not inevitable. For the philosophy of Christ includes his physicality, his humanness. In fact, the very reality of his humanity is what makes salvation through him possible at all, on multiple levels. But where Christ becomes distasteful to the thinker, philosopher, or skeptic is on account of what he has been reduced to. Not only is salvation through Christ open-ended and all-encompassing, but the most inclusive creed of all regarding everything we can recognize as absolutes. What Christians have done in my experience is created sub-cultures and boxes that has left vital elements of truth in the cold. They have excluded the secular world from their indoctrinated applications of his truth in an attempt to create protective hedges from falsifications, from sin. This is not done without seemingly good intentions. Yet it leaves some of us wondering if there "weren't more out there." Having experienced truth elsewhere, Jesus Christ in turn appears lacking, close-minded, and irrelevant. But if we are able to burn these boxes, we will discover that what we are drawn to outside of these self-erected bubbles is still represented in him. When we can enjoy all truth as God's truth, and remember that Christ is God's very essence embodied, it frees us to concentrate all our philosophy of righteousness, goodness, and truth on him and him alone. The fact that God in his graciousness did indeed concentrate all truth into one individual is not exclusive, but infinitely kind. It leaves us looking to one man for answers- rather than the entirety of the cosmos.
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