| Saviour Machine – Jesus Christ Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[IntoTheNarrowGate:13256] I like your interpretation better than the others here and i know you wrote 6+ years ago but just listening to this song for the first time I have to add a comment because the song is so troubling on its surface. I believe the point he was trying to convey is that much evil has been done in the name of Jesus Christ over the centuries. Not that the true Jesus Christ is the reason for the wars but the symbol is. Steve Camp wrote a song about babies playing marbles with diamonds and don't Christians do this often with the name of Jesus? There is no escaping that wars have been fought in His name, saints were burned at the stake. The KKK claims His name. So I see the song as a cry out against the misuse of the nature of our Lord. But I do think mixed in there is some frustration with unanswerable questions of why He allows and seemingly watches as evil goes on. In our minds we cannot fully understand and comprehend these things. But our reaction to seeing these things is to bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist, reject and judge God as injust, or trust Him knowing that our minds are limited and the He has provided a way of salvation. This life goes by in the blink of an eye but believing our souls live on for eternity, of what value is our perspective? Do we really have all we need to pass judgement. He is the potter, we are the clay. That said, I believe God honors our cries out to Him as this song does. He doesn't condemn us for asking these questions. It seems it would be far more egregious to Him that we dismiss and forget Him, getting carried away by the cares of our days. That we replace deep thought about His nature with canned, thoughtless replies and worrying more about what is acceptable to say or not say which leads to dishonesty. Come before the Lord broken, humble and honest and He will lift you up. |
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