Jesus is Life, yeah, Oh oh oh oh!

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, oh
The air I'm breathing
Why my heart is beating
Everything I'm needing
Jesus is life
Jesus is life

I 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:

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.