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December 18, 2003

God is Speaking through the Music

Ever had this experience? An everyday, normal, just-fun-to-listen-to song that was written by someone who doesn't claim to know anything about God, suddenly speaks to you as if God had written a part of the lyric?

I was watching the "Rush In Rio" concert DVD last night (as a bass player, Geddy Lee has been my "we're not worthy" nomination for many a year), and caught these lines from "Resist":

I can close my eyes to anything but injustice
I can learn to get along with all the things I don't know
You can surrender without a prayer
But never really pray without surrender
You can fight without winning
But never win without a fight
It reminds me of the first time Wendy & I saw Amanda Marshall performing "Let It Rain", and it immediately struck both of us that this was a very cool song of repentence.

It's easy sometimes to point to certain songs because we know (or suspect) that at least some of the members of the band are Christians -- such as Collective Soul and Creed. I'm talking more about bands that you wouldn't normally expect to have God speak through. Anybody else ever find this? What songs/artists?

A final thought from Max Webster (the band Kim Mitchell was once a part of): "We're just musicians, here to thin the thickness of your skin."

P.S. NOTE: the fact that the bands (except for Creed & Collective Soul) are all Canadian has nothing to do with archaic CRTC restrictions...

posted by Robbymac at 7:57 AM

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