| | Troublesome times are here,
Filling men's hearts with fear,
Freedom we all hold dear now is at stake.
Humbling your heart to God
saves from the chast'ning rod,
homeward we then will trod, Christians awake!
It seems to me that "popular" hymns/church songs nowadays lack a certain depth to them. They speak of everlasting love, praise, and adoration, but there's very little meat to them. Nothing to help the average Christian in their daily walk; no exhortation, no warnings, no reminders. They're pretty and fun to sing. On rare occasions, you may even find yourself truly worshipping while singing them, and that is no bad thing. But... I have a mind. And it's engaged even while singing. You have to understand- I graduated with a music degree. For my attention to be caught during a song service, the words have to mean something and actually change every so often. Mindless repetition is not my idea of worship.
There's a lot of negativism about Christianity in the world right now. People think badly of us if we say anything other than "God is love." Yeah, God is love. But guess what love without discipline gets you? Exactly where we are today. God does not change. He is still the same God who ordered the wholesale massacre of the Canaanites back in Joshua's day. He is still the God who sold His people into slavery time and time again, trying to get His message across. Do you honestly think we'll be spared? If you can't reconcile the God of the old testament with the God of the new... maybe you should read your Bible again.
The verses above seem very apt to me right now. Our country is in a very delicate state right now, and it could go in many different directions from here. So it's time to wake up and pay attention. |
| | Posted 6/6/2009 11:48 PM - 73 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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