For me this song is about spirital warfare, involving Jesus Christ and satan. ("stealing my eternal soul") Breaking free from satan's chains and all the ways he uses to opress. The writer is conveying that satan doesn't have power over him, and he always gets out of the traps (boxes) that are put there via social purgatory, material things, rules, systems, also by guilt and other feelings. And the lyric "Knowing my condition is the reason I must change" and "knowing my condition is the reason I must die" Knowing the human condition (sin) and the reason I must die meaning die to self (fleshly earthey body) and be alive in spirit.....
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must DENY HIMSELF and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:24-26
This song was very very powerful for me. It helped me get through alot of spiritual battles and trials and tribulations. Thank God that 1 John 4:4 - "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world" AMEN and lauryn does this song absolutely beautifully!!!! =)
For me this song is about spirital warfare, involving Jesus Christ and satan. ("stealing my eternal soul") Breaking free from satan's chains and all the ways he uses to opress. The writer is conveying that satan doesn't have power over him, and he always gets out of the traps (boxes) that are put there via social purgatory, material things, rules, systems, also by guilt and other feelings. And the lyric "Knowing my condition is the reason I must change" and "knowing my condition is the reason I must die" Knowing the human condition (sin) and the reason I must die meaning die to self (fleshly earthey body) and be alive in spirit.....
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must DENY HIMSELF and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:24-26
This song was very very powerful for me. It helped me get through alot of spiritual battles and trials and tribulations. Thank God that 1 John 4:4 - "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world" AMEN and lauryn does this song absolutely beautifully!!!! =)