Roarin'!!

Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold to see a revolution come.


Now I'm lost in your freedom this world will over come.

My God's not dead, He's surely alive

And He's living on the inside roarin' like a lion.

Let hope arise and make the darkness hide
My faith is dead I need a resuuection somehow.


Let Heaven roar and fire fall, come shake the ground with the sound of revival.

These lyrics hail from the most recent live DC*B recording on the newest Passion: Awakening CD. Daniel Bashta is the individual who was blessed with these words. The first time I heard these lyrics, my emotions had the same reaction that Miss Shields had to Ralphie's theme during his day dream in A Christmas Story; "shear poetry."

What would love exploding look like, bringing the dead to life, opening people's eyes and ears and hearts to true life. Or hope arising casting out darkness, removing the veil from our eyes and opening out hearts to the glory of God.

My God's not dead, He's surely alive. 

Our God is not dead and he surely is alive. That line is great in itself, but then the chorus gets better.

He's living on the inside

God is living inside of you and me.  Isn't the holy spirit amazing?  That God can come and live inside of us. Then my favorite part.

roarin' like a lion

I love that imagery. God is inside us, roarin' like a lion, wanting to know and rescue all who have fallen and to be known intimately by everyone. We have the God of the universe, inside of us roaring.  This sounds cheesy, but it's so true. We do not worship a silent, passive God. He is active and vocal, and when we allow him to dwell in us, his presence is unmistakable.

You can listen to it here:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmXD52oogRI


What do you think?

Jealousy

Since going to church this morning, there has been something that I've been thinking about all day. The opening line from the song "How He Loves," originally written by John Mark McMillan and most recently recorded by the David Crowder Band. The very first line of the song is as follows:

He is jealous for me

What an amazing thing to think about. The God of the universe, creator of everything, all knowing, all powerful, the one who knows each one of more intimately than we ever could, is jealous for us, for you, for me. He loves us so much, he feels jealously towards the petty things in this world that we fill up our time with rather than spending time with God. We have pushed our savior to jealously and still he loves us unconditionally and wants nothing more than for us to come to him. A simple task, yet we are to scared to leave our comfortable lives that we have built for ourselves instead of pursuing God and living an even greater life than we could imagine.

In case you haven't seen this, here is the link to the David Crowder Band music video for the song. While the video itself is entertaining, pay attention to the words too. I hope they grab your heart like they have grabbed mine.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJyW55AXJAk&feature=related

What do you think?