Awakening: continued.

Okay, I'm late. Real late.  I am currently packing for a cruise (which I may talk about in a later post) so if there seems to be a delay of posting or anything like that for the next 3 weeks, its that. Hopefully I'll post pictures and talk to you guys about it. Ah! I'm still rambling! On to the analysis!


Wait.



Before I start, I should tell you a little about myself, maybe to give you a little view from my perspective. First of, I lead worship at a local Pentecostal Church and God has done great things in my life (testimony? maybe! blog about it? possibly!). I'm always looking for new songs to add to our setlist, but every so often, I come across a song that speaks to me on a different level than just the lyrics and the chords. Yes, most worship music should be like this, but I like to believe that everybody, through certain life experiences and perspectives, has a song or songs that speak to them on a soul-level. 

This, for me, is one of those songs.


Chris Tomlin does an amazing job of putting so much meaning into his songs while making it easy for churches and other places of worship to truly use his songs as tools to bring lives closer to Christ...it's amazing. For me, the first verse really defines why I worship (publicly, at least.)

In our hearts, Lord, in this nation
Awakening
Holy Spirit, we desire
Awakening

Isn't this what we yearn for? Is this not why we pray for the world? So that we may see His Spirit poured out over the world in such a way that leaders around the world could not deny, bowing down with the rest of their countries proclaiming He is God and no one else? My dictionary defines awakening as the state of returning to conciousness. Returning to conciousness. This would mean that we have been unconscious the entire time! When you are unconscious, you are unaware of your surroundings; unresponsive to everything. You could be falling off a cliff and you wouldn't notice. Until you are woken up, that is. I guess, as a human race, we ARE unconscious. We are knee-deep in sin and most of us don't know, and the ones that know, pretend not to care. For a lot of us, our relationship with God is becoming choked up until the point where we use him like a 911 system instead of a loving father or best friend.  I interpret this to mean, "God, bring us back to the relationship we had with You, right back to the beginning, back to Adam and Eve when we could see you and talk with you freely without fear, prejudice, or anything."

The next line that stands out to me is the prechorus.

For You and You alone
Awake my soul, awake my soul and sing
For the world You love
Your will be done, let Your will be done in me

For You and You alone. Only God, our God, can shake us and break us and expose our innermost core in a way we cannot explain nor understand. 


I wouldn't have it any other way.


I like how Chris Tomlin says "Awake my soul AND sing." When you wake up from being dead you are probably not going to shrug your shoulders and give a sarcastic, "...Hurrah?" You are going to shout and sing! Possibly dance if you have rhythm! Even more if you don't! Haha, terrible joke. But my point stands. Rejoice. You're alive!


For the world you love...I think sometimes we forget how much He loves us. Like, he made us. Took dirt. From the ground. BREATHED into it (First off, how do you go about breathing into dirt?) And voila, you have the first human being. And the earth? Yeah, he made that in 7 days. He did it so well, that on the last day he took a nap. Not literally, it was a day of rest. But you get the point.


I....am feeling a bit tired, and I would like my posts to make sense for the rest reader (Freudian slip....) so I will continue my analysis tomorrow! 

God Bless!


-4:29