I personally struggled with the idea of black and white fading to gray for a long time though this is also one of my favorites songs from Jars.
But at the end what left me satisfied about its meaning is when I lived through the process itself: At the beginning when you give your life to Christ, you start to contrast everything with God. if you become religious, you'll believe everything is black and white. If you truly love Jesus, you'll see that nothing is black or white because our incapacity to perceive things objectively. When you grow as a Christian, you start talking less, judging less, hating less and loving more, even whom doesn't "deserve" to be loved. It's the greatest instance of humbleness: to assert less and to ask more.
So I must disagree with Wackdee in that this song (to me at least) does not cover what is like to be living our lifes apart from God, but just the opposite: "When ignorance is bliss" Wow, "SAVE ME FROM MYSELF!" It is not about a person who doesn't know God and gets to know him but about a person who already loves God and finds out that is not a exactly the God he though it was, but recognizes that the real God wants to turn him inside-out, breaking paradigms and humbling our assertions of what is good or bad to the gray of love that before condemning, loves unconditionally.
I personally struggled with the idea of black and white fading to gray for a long time though this is also one of my favorites songs from Jars.
But at the end what left me satisfied about its meaning is when I lived through the process itself: At the beginning when you give your life to Christ, you start to contrast everything with God. if you become religious, you'll believe everything is black and white. If you truly love Jesus, you'll see that nothing is black or white because our incapacity to perceive things objectively. When you grow as a Christian, you start talking less, judging less, hating less and loving more, even whom doesn't "deserve" to be loved. It's the greatest instance of humbleness: to assert less and to ask more.
So I must disagree with Wackdee in that this song (to me at least) does not cover what is like to be living our lifes apart from God, but just the opposite: "When ignorance is bliss" Wow, "SAVE ME FROM MYSELF!" It is not about a person who doesn't know God and gets to know him but about a person who already loves God and finds out that is not a exactly the God he though it was, but recognizes that the real God wants to turn him inside-out, breaking paradigms and humbling our assertions of what is good or bad to the gray of love that before condemning, loves unconditionally.