So I was looking up songs on for my playlist, songs that I remember from the past or have heard recently and I remembered someone saying that Lifehouse is actually a Christian band. So I searched for them, and found the song "I'm falling even more in love with you." (It might be called "Hanging by a Moment.")
I've pasted the lyrics below so you can really dwell on what them.
Desperate for changing,
Starving for truth,
I'm closer to where I started,
I’m chasing after you
I’m falling even more in love with you,
Letting go of all I’ve held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I’ll take your invitation
You take all of me
Now I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I’ve held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and I'm quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There's nothing else to lose
There's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world
That could change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started,
I'm chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I’ve held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and I'm quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Waiting by a moment here with you
I think that when I first started listening to this I thought, "I've been there." And as I listened to this chorus, I thought "I want to be there more than I have been." I feel like sometimes my faith is like the tip of an iceberg. What I can see is what I have, but God wants greater depth than what can be seen. He wants the things for you and your relationship with him that are beyond your understanding. That is what I want, but somedays I forget the cries of my soul in the midst of the"daily grind" - the need for groceries, to pay bills, to clean, to care for others, to check email and find a job/work at a job. These all get in the way. Maybe they get in the way because I'm not "hanging by a moment", I'm not living day by day. I'm living for the things that are coming and that will be rather than what is now.
The deep cry of my heart is to have more - more of you. May I fall even more in love with you ever moment that passes.
Lifehouse has darn good lyrics, even if I can't stand Jason Wade's voice. I have a feeling they know their Bible on a much more intimate level than a lot of the straight-up "Christian Rock" bands. Plus, they seem to consistently write songs that make you go "dude. I've been there." Their song "Spin" off of their second album, "Stanley Cimbfall", meant a lot to me when I was pulling out of my nervous breakdown my junior year of college (RIGHT before I met you.)
ReplyDeleteOh, and an interesting fact: Jason Wade's parents were traveling missionaries when he was a kid. He grew up all over the world just like you.