Maybe it's about the mysterious way in which God can show up and leave in someone's life. That is, sometimes it seems like God is there for you and blessing you, while other times (when life is dark) it seems like God has almost abandoned you.
God is always there even in those dark times. It is Satan who is able to creep in and deceive us allowing us to think we are all alone. It is our human nature to believe the only time God is in our life is when everything is running smoothly like we like it. But that's the exact problem. We start with ourself first. Once you completly give yourself to Him, you then begin to understand that there will be bumps and bruises in your life, but know you have Christ in you and know that Satan is after you...
God is always there even in those dark times. It is Satan who is able to creep in and deceive us allowing us to think we are all alone. It is our human nature to believe the only time God is in our life is when everything is running smoothly like we like it. But that's the exact problem. We start with ourself first. Once you completly give yourself to Him, you then begin to understand that there will be bumps and bruises in your life, but know you have Christ in you and know that Satan is after you more than ever now because of it. My whole point is God does not enter our life sometimes and leave it sometimes. He created us along with the whole universe. His time is eternity.... He is always here.
Yes, well said. I agree. I meant to say in the first line "Maybe it's about the mysterious way in which God can seem to show up and leave...". I didn't mean to imply that He actually does so. Good catch. Now that you drew that point out, the first line of the song doesn't match up with my interpretation...hmm...
Yes, well said. I agree. I meant to say in the first line "Maybe it's about the mysterious way in which God can seem to show up and leave...". I didn't mean to imply that He actually does so. Good catch. Now that you drew that point out, the first line of the song doesn't match up with my interpretation...hmm...
I have a couple ideas: 1. Mabey he is tlaking about sin or some addiction. Sin or the Devil/sin/addiction is to an extent a Mystery and how we keep returning to it. And it does touch a very ddep part of peoples lives.
Or 2. It is as the above has said, he is speaking of the "Dark Night" of the soul. God allows us to go though Dark Nights in order to help us grow more in the Spiritual life. He does not leav us, but allows us to feel great darkness in order to...
I have a couple ideas: 1. Mabey he is tlaking about sin or some addiction. Sin or the Devil/sin/addiction is to an extent a Mystery and how we keep returning to it. And it does touch a very ddep part of peoples lives.
Or 2. It is as the above has said, he is speaking of the "Dark Night" of the soul. God allows us to go though Dark Nights in order to help us grow more in the Spiritual life. He does not leav us, but allows us to feel great darkness in order to bring about death to the world and life to him. Like the line,"Somewhere I will find all the pieces torn apart, You just left behind in your mystery. Somewhere I will see all youve taken from me" The Dark night can FEEL as though somthing has been taken, aka our worldliness. Then he says," All you kept deep inside, in the mystery of you" Meaning God still keeps much inside of said person ( I would argue he give more than he takes). It seems a contradiction, which is why it is a Mystery. Just my thoughts
Bodenhammer, in the most respectful way possible your first idea of it being about the devil or sin or addiction is wrong. This is why:
Bodenhammer, in the most respectful way possible your first idea of it being about the devil or sin or addiction is wrong. This is why:
in the beginning lines he says:
in the beginning lines he says:
"You always said we'd meet again
You always said you'd be here"
"You always said we'd meet again
You always said you'd be here"
Jesus said that He would return again, He also said that He would always be with us. So the concept of the devil being with us is impossible because he can not be in two places at once. As far as sin goes just looking at those two lines have a possibility to be about...
Jesus said that He would return again, He also said that He would always be with us. So the concept of the devil being with us is impossible because he can not be in two places at once. As far as sin goes just looking at those two lines have a possibility to be about it, but the rest of the song nullifies that idea. Addiction, well that is generally a sin; addiction to drugs, alcohol, women.
However you had an interesting point when you say it touches a deep part of us. The only reason it would touch us deeply is if we hide our sin. If we do hide it, then yes is becomes very much personal. But we should bring our filth to the light and have it be revealed so that it may not have a stronghold!
Psalm 32:3 says:
"When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long"
When we keep silent about our sins, usually privacy and silence has a strong link to pornography and masturbation, it destroys us. I know that when I did struggle with porn it ate at me physically I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror and life was awful. Then I confessed and had a sort of accountability/life group thing at my church and I just mentioned it one day and it eventually got better.
Maybe it's about the mysterious way in which God can show up and leave in someone's life. That is, sometimes it seems like God is there for you and blessing you, while other times (when life is dark) it seems like God has almost abandoned you.
God is always there even in those dark times. It is Satan who is able to creep in and deceive us allowing us to think we are all alone. It is our human nature to believe the only time God is in our life is when everything is running smoothly like we like it. But that's the exact problem. We start with ourself first. Once you completly give yourself to Him, you then begin to understand that there will be bumps and bruises in your life, but know you have Christ in you and know that Satan is after you...
God is always there even in those dark times. It is Satan who is able to creep in and deceive us allowing us to think we are all alone. It is our human nature to believe the only time God is in our life is when everything is running smoothly like we like it. But that's the exact problem. We start with ourself first. Once you completly give yourself to Him, you then begin to understand that there will be bumps and bruises in your life, but know you have Christ in you and know that Satan is after you more than ever now because of it. My whole point is God does not enter our life sometimes and leave it sometimes. He created us along with the whole universe. His time is eternity.... He is always here.
Yes, well said. I agree. I meant to say in the first line "Maybe it's about the mysterious way in which God can seem to show up and leave...". I didn't mean to imply that He actually does so. Good catch. Now that you drew that point out, the first line of the song doesn't match up with my interpretation...hmm...
Yes, well said. I agree. I meant to say in the first line "Maybe it's about the mysterious way in which God can seem to show up and leave...". I didn't mean to imply that He actually does so. Good catch. Now that you drew that point out, the first line of the song doesn't match up with my interpretation...hmm...
i must agree with str8706. that is a great point. this is such a good song...
i must agree with str8706. that is a great point. this is such a good song...
I have a couple ideas: 1. Mabey he is tlaking about sin or some addiction. Sin or the Devil/sin/addiction is to an extent a Mystery and how we keep returning to it. And it does touch a very ddep part of peoples lives. Or 2. It is as the above has said, he is speaking of the "Dark Night" of the soul. God allows us to go though Dark Nights in order to help us grow more in the Spiritual life. He does not leav us, but allows us to feel great darkness in order to...
I have a couple ideas: 1. Mabey he is tlaking about sin or some addiction. Sin or the Devil/sin/addiction is to an extent a Mystery and how we keep returning to it. And it does touch a very ddep part of peoples lives.
Or 2. It is as the above has said, he is speaking of the "Dark Night" of the soul. God allows us to go though Dark Nights in order to help us grow more in the Spiritual life. He does not leav us, but allows us to feel great darkness in order to bring about death to the world and life to him. Like the line,"Somewhere I will find all the pieces torn apart, You just left behind in your mystery. Somewhere I will see all youve taken from me" The Dark night can FEEL as though somthing has been taken, aka our worldliness. Then he says," All you kept deep inside, in the mystery of you" Meaning God still keeps much inside of said person ( I would argue he give more than he takes). It seems a contradiction, which is why it is a Mystery. Just my thoughts
Bodenhammer, in the most respectful way possible your first idea of it being about the devil or sin or addiction is wrong. This is why:
Bodenhammer, in the most respectful way possible your first idea of it being about the devil or sin or addiction is wrong. This is why:
in the beginning lines he says:
in the beginning lines he says:
"You always said we'd meet again You always said you'd be here"
"You always said we'd meet again You always said you'd be here"
Jesus said that He would return again, He also said that He would always be with us. So the concept of the devil being with us is impossible because he can not be in two places at once. As far as sin goes just looking at those two lines have a possibility to be about...
Jesus said that He would return again, He also said that He would always be with us. So the concept of the devil being with us is impossible because he can not be in two places at once. As far as sin goes just looking at those two lines have a possibility to be about it, but the rest of the song nullifies that idea. Addiction, well that is generally a sin; addiction to drugs, alcohol, women.
However you had an interesting point when you say it touches a deep part of us. The only reason it would touch us deeply is if we hide our sin. If we do hide it, then yes is becomes very much personal. But we should bring our filth to the light and have it be revealed so that it may not have a stronghold!
Psalm 32:3 says:
"When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long"
When we keep silent about our sins, usually privacy and silence has a strong link to pornography and masturbation, it destroys us. I know that when I did struggle with porn it ate at me physically I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror and life was awful. Then I confessed and had a sort of accountability/life group thing at my church and I just mentioned it one day and it eventually got better.