I've thought about this song a lot over the past three years. Listened to it over and over again for hours in the night. It totally sums up how I feel about God. You can interpret it however you want but Blindside had something in mind when they did this and I don't think it had anything to do with romantic relationships. If you get something different out of it then great - I'm not against that at all but this song can speak volumes to a believer and I'm in that boat.
Everyone at some point in their life wonders who God is, if He is at all. It's a thought that's been programmed into our beings. People think that God is hard to follow and hard to find but the truth is that He has revealed Himself to humanity through creation and that He wants to have a loving relationship with us. That relationship comes through Jesus Christ. The New Testament claims that Jesus Christ is literally the Word of God and that He is God Himself and that He indwells Himself among Christians; that's the fire in the first line of the song - the Bible says "His Word burns in my heart like a fire".
Christianity is kind of hard to explain because everything is about this guy that died 2,000 years ago, but He was actually God, and He rose from the dead, and we can talk with Him like He's standing right beside us. Everybody knows that religion sucks because you have to follow stupid rules. The religion of Christianity is represented by the cross. That's what is meant by "the cross is only a burden". The cross represents "pain and trials" because God has rules that none of us can abide by, and if you cant abide by the rules you die. But Jesus did abide by the rules and then He laid down His life and suffered so that we don't have to abide by the rules. We just have to believe in Jesus! Consequently "my shoes are light", I have no burden, "I can walk for miles and still just love You."
One of my most powerful memories with Jesus Christ was walking along a moonlight ocean beach, alone, praying. I was frustrated because it's hard to believe in something you can't see. I asked Him so many times to show me something to prove that He's real, and then He showed me the ocean, and the moon, and the stars, and how every grain of sand on that beach couldn't add up the number of good thoughts He has for me. "Wow," I thought, "I love You." When you realize how amazing God is it should leave you speechless. A silent conversation can be a beautiful thing. Silence is a beautiful thing by itself. "Our hearts speak the same word"
Even though I may have such incredible intimacy with God on a personal level we still have the world to face. So I stick up for my God through my faith and He does the rest of the work to show the world that He loves them too. They still don't believe, many of them never will believe, even when there are miracles happening and I can really see that God is moving; I think that everyone will know now that God has proven Himself, but they ignore Him. Before there was sin and death in the world mankind was faced with a choice. God told man one thing and Satan told him another and man chose Satan's way. That's why the world is the way it is today. All of us are faced with the same choice. Love is only real if there is choice. The harder it is to make the right choice the more genuine your love is proven to be. To create the relationship God wants with us there has to be choice. Sometimes you notice that God is there, as if He walked by and you caught a glimpse, and you realize what an awesome being He is. He created the depths of space, the stars and the planets and the comets and the black holes; the same being that created the eyeball and the butterfly and the atom. It's something that can make your heart pound in fear, but He loves you more than you can imagine. He proved His love for you by becoming a man and giving up His own life; that's something that makes my heart pound from exitement.
His love is so breathtaking. Why would the God of the Universe lower himself into the form of man in a fallen state and suffer through poverty, beatings, and execution? Because He loves me! He wants to give me the choice to be with Him and He wants to make it as easy as possible. The song says "our hearts speak the same word", I believe that word is love (if you needed something verbal to explain something silent).
I know that I got very analytical here. There's so much that could be said about this song, and I kind of want to say all of it, but words just can't explain Silence (since by nature silence is absent of words). It's a song about that thing that I just can't explain, my faith, and how this love is so real and no one else seems to understand such a simple thing.
I've thought about this song a lot over the past three years. Listened to it over and over again for hours in the night. It totally sums up how I feel about God. You can interpret it however you want but Blindside had something in mind when they did this and I don't think it had anything to do with romantic relationships. If you get something different out of it then great - I'm not against that at all but this song can speak volumes to a believer and I'm in that boat.
Everyone at some point in their life wonders who God is, if He is at all. It's a thought that's been programmed into our beings. People think that God is hard to follow and hard to find but the truth is that He has revealed Himself to humanity through creation and that He wants to have a loving relationship with us. That relationship comes through Jesus Christ. The New Testament claims that Jesus Christ is literally the Word of God and that He is God Himself and that He indwells Himself among Christians; that's the fire in the first line of the song - the Bible says "His Word burns in my heart like a fire".
Christianity is kind of hard to explain because everything is about this guy that died 2,000 years ago, but He was actually God, and He rose from the dead, and we can talk with Him like He's standing right beside us. Everybody knows that religion sucks because you have to follow stupid rules. The religion of Christianity is represented by the cross. That's what is meant by "the cross is only a burden". The cross represents "pain and trials" because God has rules that none of us can abide by, and if you cant abide by the rules you die. But Jesus did abide by the rules and then He laid down His life and suffered so that we don't have to abide by the rules. We just have to believe in Jesus! Consequently "my shoes are light", I have no burden, "I can walk for miles and still just love You."
One of my most powerful memories with Jesus Christ was walking along a moonlight ocean beach, alone, praying. I was frustrated because it's hard to believe in something you can't see. I asked Him so many times to show me something to prove that He's real, and then He showed me the ocean, and the moon, and the stars, and how every grain of sand on that beach couldn't add up the number of good thoughts He has for me. "Wow," I thought, "I love You." When you realize how amazing God is it should leave you speechless. A silent conversation can be a beautiful thing. Silence is a beautiful thing by itself. "Our hearts speak the same word"
Even though I may have such incredible intimacy with God on a personal level we still have the world to face. So I stick up for my God through my faith and He does the rest of the work to show the world that He loves them too. They still don't believe, many of them never will believe, even when there are miracles happening and I can really see that God is moving; I think that everyone will know now that God has proven Himself, but they ignore Him. Before there was sin and death in the world mankind was faced with a choice. God told man one thing and Satan told him another and man chose Satan's way. That's why the world is the way it is today. All of us are faced with the same choice. Love is only real if there is choice. The harder it is to make the right choice the more genuine your love is proven to be. To create the relationship God wants with us there has to be choice. Sometimes you notice that God is there, as if He walked by and you caught a glimpse, and you realize what an awesome being He is. He created the depths of space, the stars and the planets and the comets and the black holes; the same being that created the eyeball and the butterfly and the atom. It's something that can make your heart pound in fear, but He loves you more than you can imagine. He proved His love for you by becoming a man and giving up His own life; that's something that makes my heart pound from exitement.
His love is so breathtaking. Why would the God of the Universe lower himself into the form of man in a fallen state and suffer through poverty, beatings, and execution? Because He loves me! He wants to give me the choice to be with Him and He wants to make it as easy as possible. The song says "our hearts speak the same word", I believe that word is love (if you needed something verbal to explain something silent).
I know that I got very analytical here. There's so much that could be said about this song, and I kind of want to say all of it, but words just can't explain Silence (since by nature silence is absent of words). It's a song about that thing that I just can't explain, my faith, and how this love is so real and no one else seems to understand such a simple thing.