Through Smoke

This song to me is about the world today. the corruption and the ugliness. And it has taken over everything. And when it all comes to an end, will God still see those who believe? No doubt he will. But its about the fear of being buried underneath the garbage.

When I listen to this song...It really reminds me that even in any situation that I cannot see the ending and that I cannot see exactly where I stand, God has my back and can see right through all the smoke that may come up in my life. Through all adversity, God prevails.

I'm an atheist now, but my childhood was shaped by my Christian faith. This song reaches out to me. I know it's probably not what Needtobreathe intended, but to me this song tells a story about a man losing his faith but desperately trying to hold on to it, as I did for such a long time before finally abandoning it. "When the answers and the truth have cut their ties"...life has shown me that my beliefs just aren't making as much sense as they used to. "Will you still find me, will you still see me, through smoke?" I want God to still be there for me, I want him to make sense of all these questions and eliminate my doubts (smoke). "When everything you know seems so untrue...when i'm lost in a place that I thought I knew....give me some way that I might find you" That bridge is the most powerful...we desperately seek the surety and comfort of our childhood faith but it has eroded to the point that you're left with uncomfortable doubt and uncertainty. We want God to restore that confidence in our faith.

For me personally, I pleaded with God for 6 months of my life in college to restore that faith, and he never did. But that pain and sadness has been replaced with the liberation, joy, and happiness of accepting the fact that while there is no God, I can live every day as if it were my last without the repression and guilt that comes along with religion. This song reminds me of that beautiful transitional time in my life six years ago.

What it means to me is that sometimes the faith we grew up with is not the truth and reality that has been revealed to us over time. For example, the Christian Church today's main teaching is that God required punishment for sin, and Jesus took all our punishment for all our sin. In what just and fair court do the innocent get punished and the guilty go free. His is just and the concept of Vicarious Sacrifice is in no way just. Finding the writings of George MacDonald and in particular his sermon called "Justice" and the one called "Righteousness" have helped me to see through the smoke of what I consider a false teaching if the church today. I desire to follow my Lord Jesus and his Ways and not what I consider the mis-guidings of the church today.

This song to me is about how the smoke filled the temple and we go through it to get to christ on the other side

This song is about how the smoke filled the temple and we go through it to get to jesus on the other side

When the smoke filled the temple we go through to get to jesus on the other side