Friday, October 20, 2006

WWJD

Asleep In The Light
by Keith Green

Do you see, do you see, all the people sinking down,
Don't you care, don't you care, are you gonna let them drown,
How can you be so numb, not to care if they come,
You close your eyes and pretend the job's done.

Oh Bless me Lord, bless me Lord, you know it's all I ever hear,
No one aches, no one hurts, no one even sheds one tear,
But He cries, He weeps, He bleeds, and He cares for your needs,
And you just lay back and keep soaking it in, oh, can't you see it's such sin?

Cause He brings people to your door,
And you turn them away, as you smile and say,
God bless you, be at peace, and all Heaven just weeps,
Cause Jesus came to your door, you've left Him out on the streets.

Open up, open up, and give yourself away,
You've seen the need, you hear the cry, so how can you delay,
God's calling and you're the one, but like Jonah you run,
He's told you to speak, but you keep holding it in,
Oh, can't you see it's such sin?

The world is sleeping in the dark,
That the church can't fight, cause it's asleep in the light,
How can you be so dead, when you've been so well fed,
Jesus rose from the grave, and you, you can't even get out of bed,
Oh, Jesus rose from the dead, come on, get out of your bed.

How can you be so numb, not to care if they come,
You close your eyes and pretend the job's done,
You close your eyes and pretend the job's done,
Don't close your eyes, don't pretend the job's done.
Come away, come away, come away with Me, My love,
Come away, from this mess, come away with Me, My love.


As I leave for my weekend, my head is full of so much stuff. What I came back with in my head this summer, was that I need to be out in my community more. I need to love the mission-field I've been placed in and do all I can to help them. Our church has already done more than one community church project since the beginning of September and I know that God has much more exciting things planned...I can't wait. Keith Green speaks so much truth in this song...I need to open my eyes more than ever before. If we are going to love this world how Christ would have, then we truly have to see the world through His eyes...have to feel what others are feeling...have to put ourselves out there to help and love them.


"You see this is where I quite heartedly disagree, the cup is not half full if we can say 'I am good' to another's 'suffering'. That's not half full at all, that others having emptiness to our cup runneth over. Time we started pouring some drinks." (societyvs)


I read this quote this morning and I agree with it 100%. As I commented...if we are fortunate to have our cups even half full, if not running over, then it's time the contents of the cup quit being hoarded and instead shared around. Things would be a lot better in this world if, instead of sitting on the sidelines trying to protect what we had, we just shared it around to help everyone's cup to be full...that's living a life of love and really in my mind, what the call of the 'church' is to be.

I'm as guilty as the next person about feeling the fear of the unknown. I am trying hard and will continue to begin living this life for those around me, instead of for me. We need to begin pouring some drinks for those around us and helping people to get their cups full as well. That's community and love in the purest form...WWJD...He'd be out there pouring drinks and filling people up!

4 comments:

SocietyVs said...

"Things would be a lot better in this world if, instead of sitting on the sidelines trying to protect what we had, we just shared it around to help everyone's cup to be full...that's living a life of love and really in my mind, what the call of the 'church' is to be." (Cinder)

I agree with your atatement here and I really love that song by Keith Green (brings tears to my eyes everytime I really consider the words). They ring so prophetically true and have since he wrote them (asleep in the light).

I think the church is called to the same thing as that song preaches, giving what we have to make someone else's life that much better. It just puts pure joy in my heart when I hear someone say they also see this as the church's highest goal...it's something so dear to the gospel writers and something dear to me.

I just think we need to use what we have and what we have become for the benefit of the world we love around us...which means giving of the excess we accrue to the poor and hurt in our society. I have been said to be preaching a social gospel but I don't see it that way at all. I think people that help (the poor/needy/destitute/broken) are just not reading the bible anymore, they are believing the words of Jesus and literally following Him. I just can't help but think God loves them all as he loved me (which in turn makes me love them more than I thought I could).

Cinder said...

Society ~ I honestly hadn't heard hardly any of Keith Green's songs until the past few years. I didn't actually listen to any christian music until high school.

Jollybeggar sang "Asleep in the Light" during his sermon last month...it was the first time i'd heard the song and directly after our chance to be a community church...the words of that song dug really deep in my heart. The words bring tears to my eyes too and speak deeply about how I need to be living my life each day.

Our current church lives these words as their goal and it just gets me more fired up to live it and I just feel blessed at where God has placed our family. The love and direction we are allow to experience are awesome and humbling all in the same breath!

We definitely do need to use what we have and who we are to benefit, help and love those around us. It speaks in the Bible about being there to help and love the poor, needy, destitute and broken.

As you said, God does love them all as He loves us and when you begin looking at that way, it grows a much larger love in you than ever imaginable.

audrey` said...

Yeah!
God is love =)

Cinder said...

Audrey ~ Yeah, He truly is!!