You know, you can find messages about God in so many rather unlikely
places. Take song lyrics for example, I listened to one this morning after
reading a lesson in our current Bible Study, Encounters of the Spirit.
This song, “Sin For a Sin” by country music singer Miranda Lambert, had a line
that just captured my attention.
Initially, the song is about a cheatin’ man, but then this line just
jumped out at me:
“Bad things come with consequence
What feels good, hurts in the end
Don’t want to think about that now”
What feels good, hurts in the end
Don’t want to think about that now”
This is EXACTLY what I read this morning! In 1 Corinthians
2:13-16, Carolyn Moore, the author, asks us to consider if all our wanting is
for something Earth doesn’t have? She goes on to wonder “what if our addictions
and our debt and our serial relationships are all about this yearning for God
even when we don’t realize that’s what we’re after? What if the answer to our
brokenness is God’s holiness?” Moore
posits that we are not merely after a mental idea of God, but a relationship.
She likens it to homesickness, explaining that we were made for something we
are trying to get back to. Ephesians 4:19 says, “Having lost all sensitivity, they
have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of
impurity, with a continual lust for more.”
I am getting a lot out of this
book, but this particular message resonated with me. It was like a big aha
moment.
Just for fun, you might like to listen to Miranda Lambert’s song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlvUmYGLdgM
Some additional lyrics from
this song read:
Bible told me to forget
All those who trespass against
Fire and brimstone
Dirt and a headstone
Bury them, baby
Along with your sins
Hear the thunder
Six feet under
Hit your knees
Wont do it again
Bible told me to forget
All those who trespass against
Fire and brimstone
Dirt and a headstone
Bury them, baby
Along with your sins
Hear the thunder
Six feet under
Hit your knees
Wont do it again
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