The Best of You
Sometimes i get really revved up about my faith after i hear certain things or i've attended certain conferences or whatever.
Last night i heard GOOD preaching, real, genuine, meaty and really hearty preaching and i was truly inspired. But it made me think about what i was doing about this faith i proclaim to have. How passionate am i? How gutsy am i? Do i "give God enough space?" Do i let him infiltrate every part of who i am? Am i doing justice to my so called Christianity? Am i doing God justice? Am i being who he intended me to be? Am i a fighter? Or do i just sit back and expect God to do his work through me sitting on my bum? Yea, i got a good think out of it!
All day today i haven't been able to get out of my head alot of my friends who don't know God the way i do. At different times of the day either the image of people's faces or their names have been flashing up and floating around in my head and on the way home from work today a song came to me that wasn't even Christian and i started analysing the words and singing it over and over and over again in my head - i couldn't get rid of it!!!
It's a song that someone sings at karaoke over and over and over again til he kills it and i've never even realised what the words say until now. I rushed to get home because all i knew of the song was the chorus (which is good enough in itself!) and i wanted to know the rest of the lyrics.
If you're a Foo Fighter fan you'll know it, the chorus says:
"Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?"
After i kept hearing it my head and after thinking of all my friends who couldn't be bothered with God i just thought, it's so true, who's getting the best of you and why, why, why won't you give that best part of who you are to God?!
So i got home and read the lyrics and here's what some of them said:
"Are you gone and on to someone new?
I needed somewhere to hang my head, without your noose
You gave me something that I didn't have, but had no use
I was too weak to give in, too strong to lose
My heart is under arrest again, but I break loose
My head is giving me life or death, but I can't choose
I'll swear I'll never give in, I'll refuse"
I thought about the noose that satan puts around our necks and about where we go to escape that noose, or where we go to hang our heads???
I thought about all the meaningless, useless things that satan puts into our heads and that time after time we just blindly accept them.
I thought about where our strength comes from to resist satan.
It made me think about how much of a battle for our hearts this war is, both good and evil want possesion of it and that's why our heart goes "under arrest"!!!
I thought about breaking loose, by the power of God, from satan.
And the last line held the most significance for me.
"I swear I'll never give in, I'll refuse."
I just thought, wow, this song has more credit than i've ever given it because in my relationship with God, i'm not going to give up?! Perseverance in fighting with the full armour of God is what it's all about and committing ourselves to say to God, "With your help, i can do anything".
But you think that's all???????????? There was more lyrics, and this is the greatest wake up call ever?! The next part of it said this:
"Has someone taken your faith? Its real.
The pain you feel?
The life? The love, you died to hear?
The hope that stops the broken hearts?
Your trust?
You must confess
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?"
Who's stealing your joy, your faith, who's taking away the real faith that you have in God?
Where's the pain coming from, are you giving everything to God? You know, in the bible in Psalm 84:11 the second half of the verse says:
"...no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless."
If we're living blameless lives, God's promises will be made fresh to us daily and he won't hold back anything from us, his blessings, his gifts, all the things he stores up for us in heaven, he will lavish upon us, but hey, "are we giving God the space?
Is someone sucking the life out of you? The void for God's love in your life - is someone robbing or stealing that from you???? What about your trust? What about the hope that is found in God? Who even has the right to take that away from you and if they have, why have you let them?! The song says, the hope that stops the broken hearts......why are we giving our best to someone or something that takes that hope away, that comes from God alone and stops broken hearts???
The song just makes me question, who's getting our best? It makes me think that if we don't confess all that stuff and just give it over to God, it'll end up eating us inside out!!! It makes me livid to see that all the non-Christians i know are giving their best to satan pretty much, when there is so much more for them stored up if they'd only give their best to God - he has abundant, eternal life and a love which surpasses all greatness, he has so much more to offer them than satan ever will?!
When i saw that the Foo Fighters wrote that song, i was astonished - these guys aren't even Christian and yet, the song can be seen in such a powerfully Christian way and can speak truths on levels they probably didn't even intend the song to be used for.
It also just puts a whole new spin on this guy at karaoke who sings this song on a regular basis (he's good at it) but doesn't even realise that there's a spiritual truth to that song, he doesn't see it because he's got his back turned to God - it's so crazy?! Sometimes i just wanna grab people by the shoulders and shake it into them, "don't you get it?!".......*sighs*.......
Anyway, had to blog this, it was just burning on my heart. The lyrics of this song are here and if you're smart and technical enough, "The Best of You" can be found on that page.
I must say, it's a fighting song when it's put into a Godly context. I don't think i'll listen to that song quite the same after today!
Tink xoxo
Last night i heard GOOD preaching, real, genuine, meaty and really hearty preaching and i was truly inspired. But it made me think about what i was doing about this faith i proclaim to have. How passionate am i? How gutsy am i? Do i "give God enough space?" Do i let him infiltrate every part of who i am? Am i doing justice to my so called Christianity? Am i doing God justice? Am i being who he intended me to be? Am i a fighter? Or do i just sit back and expect God to do his work through me sitting on my bum? Yea, i got a good think out of it!
All day today i haven't been able to get out of my head alot of my friends who don't know God the way i do. At different times of the day either the image of people's faces or their names have been flashing up and floating around in my head and on the way home from work today a song came to me that wasn't even Christian and i started analysing the words and singing it over and over and over again in my head - i couldn't get rid of it!!!
It's a song that someone sings at karaoke over and over and over again til he kills it and i've never even realised what the words say until now. I rushed to get home because all i knew of the song was the chorus (which is good enough in itself!) and i wanted to know the rest of the lyrics.
If you're a Foo Fighter fan you'll know it, the chorus says:
"Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?"
After i kept hearing it my head and after thinking of all my friends who couldn't be bothered with God i just thought, it's so true, who's getting the best of you and why, why, why won't you give that best part of who you are to God?!
So i got home and read the lyrics and here's what some of them said:
"Are you gone and on to someone new?
I needed somewhere to hang my head, without your noose
You gave me something that I didn't have, but had no use
I was too weak to give in, too strong to lose
My heart is under arrest again, but I break loose
My head is giving me life or death, but I can't choose
I'll swear I'll never give in, I'll refuse"
I thought about the noose that satan puts around our necks and about where we go to escape that noose, or where we go to hang our heads???
I thought about all the meaningless, useless things that satan puts into our heads and that time after time we just blindly accept them.
I thought about where our strength comes from to resist satan.
It made me think about how much of a battle for our hearts this war is, both good and evil want possesion of it and that's why our heart goes "under arrest"!!!
I thought about breaking loose, by the power of God, from satan.
And the last line held the most significance for me.
"I swear I'll never give in, I'll refuse."
I just thought, wow, this song has more credit than i've ever given it because in my relationship with God, i'm not going to give up?! Perseverance in fighting with the full armour of God is what it's all about and committing ourselves to say to God, "With your help, i can do anything".
But you think that's all???????????? There was more lyrics, and this is the greatest wake up call ever?! The next part of it said this:
"Has someone taken your faith? Its real.
The pain you feel?
The life? The love, you died to hear?
The hope that stops the broken hearts?
Your trust?
You must confess
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?"
Who's stealing your joy, your faith, who's taking away the real faith that you have in God?
Where's the pain coming from, are you giving everything to God? You know, in the bible in Psalm 84:11 the second half of the verse says:
"...no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless."
If we're living blameless lives, God's promises will be made fresh to us daily and he won't hold back anything from us, his blessings, his gifts, all the things he stores up for us in heaven, he will lavish upon us, but hey, "are we giving God the space?
Is someone sucking the life out of you? The void for God's love in your life - is someone robbing or stealing that from you???? What about your trust? What about the hope that is found in God? Who even has the right to take that away from you and if they have, why have you let them?! The song says, the hope that stops the broken hearts......why are we giving our best to someone or something that takes that hope away, that comes from God alone and stops broken hearts???
The song just makes me question, who's getting our best? It makes me think that if we don't confess all that stuff and just give it over to God, it'll end up eating us inside out!!! It makes me livid to see that all the non-Christians i know are giving their best to satan pretty much, when there is so much more for them stored up if they'd only give their best to God - he has abundant, eternal life and a love which surpasses all greatness, he has so much more to offer them than satan ever will?!
When i saw that the Foo Fighters wrote that song, i was astonished - these guys aren't even Christian and yet, the song can be seen in such a powerfully Christian way and can speak truths on levels they probably didn't even intend the song to be used for.
It also just puts a whole new spin on this guy at karaoke who sings this song on a regular basis (he's good at it) but doesn't even realise that there's a spiritual truth to that song, he doesn't see it because he's got his back turned to God - it's so crazy?! Sometimes i just wanna grab people by the shoulders and shake it into them, "don't you get it?!".......*sighs*.......
Anyway, had to blog this, it was just burning on my heart. The lyrics of this song are here and if you're smart and technical enough, "The Best of You" can be found on that page.
I must say, it's a fighting song when it's put into a Godly context. I don't think i'll listen to that song quite the same after today!
Tink xoxo
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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