Jesus is Life, yeah, Oh oh oh oh!
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I just got a chance to listen to my new copy of SCC's Declaration CD. Its a great CD, every bit as good as Speechless (though lacking, perhaps, the quiet meditations of Be Still and Know and With Hope). Here's a sampling of the absolutely GREAT lyrics:Jesus is life, yeah, oh, oh, oh Jesus is life, yeah, oh, oh, ohI just feel like doing as SCC did at the concert and saying “C'mon everyone - sing along - Jesus is life, yeah, oh, oh, oh!” And then there is this touching song based on Beyond the Gates of Splendor:
The air I'm breathing
Why my heart is beating
Everything I'm needing
Jesus is life
Jesus is life
And the pain falls like a curtain On the things I once called certain
And I have to say the words I fear the most
I just don't know
[…]
God is God and I am not
I can only see a part of the picture He's painting
God is God and I am man
So I'll never understand it all
For only God is God
C'mon everyone - “Wake the neighbors, get the word out/Come on…crank up the music…climb a mountain and shout/This is life we've been given made to be lived out/So la la la la live out loud/Live out loud, yeah.”
This might sound like a happy go lucky lyric, but I think it has a deep meaning. We need to live out loud. To make it clear we are God followers, and to worship God because God is God - he knows what's going on even when we don't. We need to have that magnificent obsession.
See I could write a whole meditation all based on the titles of these songs.
Seriously though, SCC uses his gift in music to tackle some very serious issues - and we should do the same when listening.
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