| Jars of Clay – Fade To Grey Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the song is talking about what A.W. Tozer called "the souls paradox of love". He said that those that have found God pursue Him hard, whereas religionists are too easily satisfied and after they say a prayer or walk an aisle or make a decision they have no need of God. Jesus said that all that come to Him and drink would never thirst again. But why will they never thirst again? Because they have rivers of living water flowing from within them. Meaning that those who believe in Christ, have Christ living within, so that they are perpetually drinking Him. So, when he says that Christians never thirst, he means they never go outside of Christ to quench their thirst. But to be a believer is to perpetually drink Christ - which means we perpetually thirst for Him. Living people need air, food and water. Dead people don't. We are too quick to define Christianity as being satisfied with a decision we have made. We categorize the world into black and white. People that are satisfied in their decision to receive Christ and people that are not. Unfortunately, those that still desire more of Christ we lump into the "have not" category. But to love Christ is sometimes to go through darkness or night. We grieve for our own sin, and doubts. We are not as faithful to God as he is to us. Christians are not those that do not go through darkness and feel spiritual grief and spiritual hunger and thirst. Christians are those that constantly return to Christ for protection and nourishment. Better to go through that coldness than to be satisfied with our stoney religious heart. C.S. Lewis said it this way in his book surprised by joy: "True, it was desire, not possession. But then what I had felt on the walk had also been desire, and only possession in so far as that kind of desire is itself desirable, is the fullest possession we can know on earth; or rather, because the very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. There, to have is to want to want is to have. Thus, the very moment when I longed to be stabbed again, was itself again such a stabbing." |
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