There is no
point singing about intimacy if one never does it. It is like singing of love
and never loving. It is as futile as the snail’s plight to reach the sky. Those
who perhaps listen to such worship songs no doubt feel at the moment a fervent
zeal, but as soon as the song stops playing, so does their present emotion, and
their desire for intimacy is blown away as the chaff by the wind.
The Christian
life consists in much doing, and I fear that many of us have settled to singing
about our Christian life rather than living it.
Jesus didn’t tell people to pay
him lip service but to follow him.
We sing there is power in the name of Jesus
to break every chain, although true theologically but in actuality what chains
are being broken?
We sing of an army rising up – but where is this army rising
up who are unashamed of the gospel of Christ?
I do not doubt that God is going
about doing His work through ten million various means and using saints as well
as sinners to accomplish his purpose. Nevertheless I believe that God would
want his people to live the life He has called them too rather than sing about
it and never doing it, or never feeling his divine power.
K.Oni
hmmm I was about to write a similar blog post :) but I feel you've done my thoughts justice! x Leila
ReplyDeleteHa you should still write it. I want to read it. =)
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