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Empty Hands held high
Such Small sacrifice
If not joined with my life
I sing in vain tonight
May the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to you
Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my life song sing to You
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You
Lord, I give my life
A Living sacrifice
To reach a world in need
To be your hands and feet
So may the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to you
Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my life song sing to You
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my life song sing to You
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You
Such Small sacrifice
If not joined with my life
I sing in vain tonight
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to you
Let my life song sing to You
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You
A Living sacrifice
To reach a world in need
To be your hands and feet
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to you
Let my life song sing to You
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my life song sing to You
I want to sign your name
to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You
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Submitted by
element Sc 361 On Dec 12, 2005
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I can't believe there are no comments on this song (lol that's probably the most used first post). I love this song and while I can't think enough to say what it means to me, it's one of my favorite Casting Crowns songs...which is hard to say since I like most of them, but this one is rather uplifting and isn't hurting my head at the moment (stupid headache) so at this moment it's one of my favorites lol.
this song is absolutely amazing. my favorite song definitely. this song truly shows the true meaning of christianity. better than dc talk, amy grant, or anyone like that. amazing song.
i love this song...it inspires me to show how i live for God to those that are blinded by sin.
First of all, in reaction to Norgy2010's comment, perhaps it's not that we're blinded by sin, but that we have a different understanding of the world than you do.
Think of it this way. If Satan is zero and God is one, and the world is a digital computer, then without both Satan and God, there is no signal, only a static perpetual voltage which, without something to compare against, says nothing, means nothing, and is nothing.
Information can not exist in a vacuum - it needs other information to echo off of, reflect off of, and build against. And it can neither be created nor destroyed. God can not have created you - he can have created the phyiscal matter that your body is built out of, but the information that is truly you, the knowledge that makes your soul yours and not someone else's, this not even God can create or destroy. This is eternal and beyond the scope of any being to do anything to.
Beyond that, I think this song is about a different interpretation of our daily actions and thoughts - looking at it as information - a particular type of information, a song.. each choice we make adds another note, each movement, each step, perhaps even each thought..
As far as the 'true meaning of christianity', I'm not sure there is such a thing. Reality is different for each participant, and you and I may take totally different things away from the Bible. (In fact, we almost certainly did. I think it's a awful book, that it constrains God and shows the pettiness of it's authors, and that the reality is far better than a diety who will allow you to be tortured for eternity for not following one particular stripe of beliefs). There isn't a 'true' meaning of any given word that can be said to hold true for all the people who use that word, and perhaps that's not important. What's probably important is what truth is, to you.
I no longer look at it this way. But, I also encourage people to sin, rather than doing nothing.
I no longer look at it this way. But, I also encourage people to sin, rather than doing nothing.
The word sin literally means "miss". It isn't something to be horrified at and live your life in chains of guilt and shame about. If you sin, stand up and try again! Sooner or later you will hit the target, instead of missing.
The word sin literally means "miss". It isn't something to be horrified at and live your life in chains of guilt and shame about. If you sin, stand up and try again! Sooner or later you will hit the target, instead of missing.
I also believe that the contrast between God and the Devil may be needed to preserve free will.. it may be the tension between those two things helps us to be free.
I also believe that the contrast between God and the Devil may be needed to preserve free will.. it may be the tension between those two things helps us to be free.
At some point, I'll...
At some point, I'll probably write a blog post explaining my latest version of beliefs on this - but they're subject to change, again and again - as I search for and discover my spirituality, I seem to change my mind a lot.
To sheer, if what you say is true, then eventually all of humanity will fall to pieces, the sun will die, all life as we know it in our solar system will come to an end, and maybe eventually, the hopeless cycle will begin again. But even then, every word that has ever been spoken, every idea ever brought to light, and every moral thread ever followed will cease to hold any significance.
But if what we believe is true, then just as Romans 14:11 says, "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'Every knee will bow before me, every tongue will confess to God.'"
None of your logic could remove me from the faith I have in my God, and I will stand with him leading me until the end.
To mitsukai - Far from it. I'm saying that we are basically informational beings, and that all information is eternal, must be eternal, can't be anything but eternal. If you start at one and keep counting, eventually you will come up with (once you convert to the format that makes sense for that type of information) every piece of information that makes up you. Those are eternal things, because they don't require physical matter to exist.
To mitsukai - Far from it. I'm saying that we are basically informational beings, and that all information is eternal, must be eternal, can't be anything but eternal. If you start at one and keep counting, eventually you will come up with (once you convert to the format that makes sense for that type of information) every piece of information that makes up you. Those are eternal things, because they don't require physical matter to exist.
I'm no longer criticizing Christianity because I have a much better understanding both of how it happened and how the key beliefs held in...
I'm no longer criticizing Christianity because I have a much better understanding both of how it happened and how the key beliefs held in the living minds of Christians are not that different from the key beliefs that are held in the mind of Sheer. If we get in a fight over who is right and who is wrong, we A: ignore the fact that what we believe controls what we experience and in that sense we are both right and B: miss the oppertunity to celebrate that for the most part, we're on the same page and any disagreements we're having are semantic i.e. disagreements because we don't use words quite the same way.
I'm truly grateful for the angels that God has placed in my life.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
This song really speaks to my heart. It talks about living a christian life. At the end of the day we want our life to be praise to Christ. We want the song of our life to be worship to Him. I pray that when I die God can look back on my life and be able to say that my life song was pleasing to Him.
sheer, you are making one of the great weaknessess of the anti biblical arguement quite clear, you seem to think that God is bound by natural laws, and that just because you believe something doesn't make it real. Bing bang theorists believe in anti-matter, and NONE has been discovered, as for information coming from nothing, it didn't, it came from God, it clearly states in the Bible "In the beginning was the Word (Jesus, being the word of truth), and the Word was God, and Was with God. God is a default, Christianity (true christianity) is based soley off of the Word of God, and the Bible, no one can disprove a single sentence, person, or idea in the Bible, you seem to be under the impression that what our so-called science today states is infallible. It is not science vs. God, it is what non- christian scientists believe vs God's truth.
In point of fact, I'm pretty sure that antimatter has been synthesized. However, that's not even really that important to my case. Information has always existed. Will always exist. Can't be made to cease to exist. But in fact, we're now having a semantic argument because you would call the infinite set of infinite sets a part of God ("in the beginning was the word") and then find that we're in complete agreement.
In point of fact, I'm pretty sure that antimatter has been synthesized. However, that's not even really that important to my case. Information has always existed. Will always exist. Can't be made to cease to exist. But in fact, we're now having a semantic argument because you would call the infinite set of infinite sets a part of God ("in the beginning was the word") and then find that we're in complete agreement.
It can't be science vs. God because science is a part of God. I can casually disprove large amounts of the bible - or show...
It can't be science vs. God because science is a part of God. I can casually disprove large amounts of the bible - or show you how they were written by people who had not yet achieved the lofty heights we hang out in in the 21st century.. but I'm not going to. Why? Well, first, because I'd hate to succeed if succeeding made you unhappy.. I have no need to hurt you and I really hope that we're both allowed to be "right" as far as our subjective realities at the same time. Second, because our beliefs form a filter which mask part of the infinity that we're submersed in.
I should add that I'm not really the same Sheer that posted that first post - I've had two years of growing and learning and I have spent a lot of time in those two years thinking about spiritual matters. That Sheer was deeply angry at Christianity for something that wasn't the fault of the religion. This Sheer understands that a lot of the things that he believes line up with the beliefs of Christians, and the places where there are differences, I believe there's more wonder here than the bible would ever credit. I see the bible as God's true message warped by the limits of the people who set pen to paper, and I don't blame them or fault them because I have many of the same limits and I've been learning how hard it is to grok and accept unconditional love.
I also doubt that any message I would give you showing the limits of the Bible would make it through your input filters. But, if you're happy, who am I to judge you? If you're not, I'm sure the same angels that help me understand how the problem is in my mind and my beliefs are available to you, and they can do a much better job of helping you change your thoughts and beliefs than I can.
Pray hard! :-)
This is a wonderful song that exemplifies being the hands and feet of Christ. It was used as the soundtrack of a video made for a mission that a group of us were on this past summer and it was perfect. All I want is for my Lifesong to be heard by others as the love of Christ.