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Today, I got out of bed with the intention of spending my entire morning playing the guitar solo in the song Better The Drugs. I've played it at least one hundred times so far, and my fingers feel like they've been playing with knives. I am so envious of Skillet and their guitar skills.
In case you're unfamiliar with this song or this band, here are the lyrics:
Feel your every heartbeat
Feel you on these empty nights
Calm the ache, stop the shakes
You clear my mind
You’re my escape
From this messed up place
‘Cause you let me forget
You numb my pain
How can I tell you just all that you are
What you do to me
You're better than drugs
Your love is like wine
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming to get me high
You're better than drugs
I'm addicted for life
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming on to get me high
Feel you when I’m restless
Feel you when I cannot cope
You’re my addiction, my prescription, my antidote
You kill the poison
Ease the suffering
Calm the rage when I’m afraid
To feel again
How can I tell you just all that You are
What You do to me
You're better than drugs
Your love is like wine
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming to get me high
You're better than drugs
I'm addicted for life
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming on to get me high
How can I tell You just all that You are?
What You do to me
Feel Your every heartbeat
Feel You on these empty nights
You’re the strength of my life
I like this song, and not just because it has an awesome guitar solo that I can almost play. It also presents God in an unusual way.
I consider this to be a worship song. In fact, if I can learn it, I'll be using this song in a worship service. Most people are surprised by the fact that I think of it as worshipful. They say "how can you talk about drugs and still be worshipful?" Well, it's not really talking about drugs. It's talking about the fact that God is beyond comparison to anything else in the world.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were more songs that don't just say, "You're glorious, o majestic Savior," and said something meaningful? We have these words that we use to describe God in worship. Things like powerful, glorious, marvelous, etc. But "better than drugs?" Yes, this is an awesome worship song.
I have to now quit writing so that I can play the solo a few more thousand times.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Coming Up Short
One time, somebody said the following paragraph:
"The biggest problem with most people is that they won't admit their flaws. I would admit mine, if I had any."
This is funny, because it is obvious that everyone has flaws, and so he really does have something to admit to. I'm sure you've figured that out. Except for the second sentence, this is a true statement. No one wants to admit where they come short of perfection.
Why is that? Well, of course, because no one wants to look less than perfect. But in fact, admitting to a mistake doesn't actually make a person appear less good. Everyone is imperfect, and everyone knows that everyone else is imperfect. So just because you don't mention your imperfections doesn't mean that people think you don't have them.
Here's the truth: if you can humbly admit to the places where you come up short, other people will actually think of you in higher regard because you can admit to flaws.
This doesn't mean you should walk around telling everyone everything you've ever done wrong, but it does mean that there is no reason to be afraid of telling the truth. Of course, that's easier for me to say since I don't ever make mistakes, right?
"The biggest problem with most people is that they won't admit their flaws. I would admit mine, if I had any."
This is funny, because it is obvious that everyone has flaws, and so he really does have something to admit to. I'm sure you've figured that out. Except for the second sentence, this is a true statement. No one wants to admit where they come short of perfection.
Why is that? Well, of course, because no one wants to look less than perfect. But in fact, admitting to a mistake doesn't actually make a person appear less good. Everyone is imperfect, and everyone knows that everyone else is imperfect. So just because you don't mention your imperfections doesn't mean that people think you don't have them.
Here's the truth: if you can humbly admit to the places where you come up short, other people will actually think of you in higher regard because you can admit to flaws.
This doesn't mean you should walk around telling everyone everything you've ever done wrong, but it does mean that there is no reason to be afraid of telling the truth. Of course, that's easier for me to say since I don't ever make mistakes, right?
Monday, August 4, 2008
The Difference Between Us
On Saturday, I spent a large amount of time at a memorial service for a relative. At this service, I observed some things.
Everyone was united in one area, which is that all of them were sad. This makes sense of course, since death is an unhappy thing. Everyone pretty much agreed that this relative was a great guy while he was alive. But after that, things start to break down.
See, this group of sad people were subdivided into two seperate groups. One group consisted of people who said "he was a great guy, I really liked being around him." The other group had people that said, "he was a great guy, I'm really looking forward to seeing him again."
I've been part of one church or another for my entire life, so God and Christianity are both pretty embedded in my way of thinking. I'll admit, I don't entirely understand other viewpoints. But I can see how they work, and it seems to me that the one major difference between the two involves death and how it affects us.
Viewpoint 1 says that death is just the end of the body, but the beginning of something very different and vastly better.
Viewpoint 2 says that death is the end of everything.
Personally, I like viewpoint 1 a lot better. This doesn't mean, of course, that this one is more accurate than the other. It's just more attractive to me.
I have a lot more to say about these viewpoints, but I'd rather keep this post short. Maybe I'll ramble some more about it at a future point in time. Probably not.
Everyone was united in one area, which is that all of them were sad. This makes sense of course, since death is an unhappy thing. Everyone pretty much agreed that this relative was a great guy while he was alive. But after that, things start to break down.
See, this group of sad people were subdivided into two seperate groups. One group consisted of people who said "he was a great guy, I really liked being around him." The other group had people that said, "he was a great guy, I'm really looking forward to seeing him again."
I've been part of one church or another for my entire life, so God and Christianity are both pretty embedded in my way of thinking. I'll admit, I don't entirely understand other viewpoints. But I can see how they work, and it seems to me that the one major difference between the two involves death and how it affects us.
Viewpoint 1 says that death is just the end of the body, but the beginning of something very different and vastly better.
Viewpoint 2 says that death is the end of everything.
Personally, I like viewpoint 1 a lot better. This doesn't mean, of course, that this one is more accurate than the other. It's just more attractive to me.
I have a lot more to say about these viewpoints, but I'd rather keep this post short. Maybe I'll ramble some more about it at a future point in time. Probably not.
Apologies
I must apologize. I have not blogged in a long time. I haven't even been that busy, I've just been not blogging.
But now things are changing, because I have things to blog about. So now I close to go write something more useful.
But now things are changing, because I have things to blog about. So now I close to go write something more useful.
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