Dr Chuck ([info]drchuck) wrote,
@ 2005-11-15 13:26:00
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Current mood: tired
Current music:While The Nations Rage - Rich Mullins

Rachel posts, I respond.

(And yes, it's cheeseball Christian music, but it's my cheeseball Christian music, so hush now.)

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Why do the nations rage?
Why do they plot and scheme?
Their bullets can't stop the prayers we pray
in the name of the Prince of Peace
We walk in faith and remember long ago
how they killed Him and then how on the third day He arose
Well, things may look bad and things may look grim
But all these things must pass except the things that are of Him

Where are the nails that pierced His hands?
Well, the nails have turned to rust, but behold the Man
He is risen and He reigns
in the hearts of the children rising up in His name
Where are the thorns that drew His blood?
Well, the thorns have turned to dust, but not so the love
he has given; no, it remains
in the hearts of the children who will love while the nations rage

The Lord in Heaven laughs
He knows what is to come
while all the chiefs of state plan their big attacks
Against His anointed One
The Church of God she will not bend her knees
to the gods of this world though they promise her peace
She stands her ground, stands firm on the Rock
Watch their walls tumble down when she lives out His love

Where are the nails that pierced His hands?
Well, the nails have turned to rust, but behold the Man
He is risen and He reigns
in the hearts of the children rising up in His name
Where are the thorns that drew His blood?
Well, the thorns have turned to dust, but not so the love
he has given; no, it remains
in the hearts of the children who will love while the nations rage




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[info]postmodernpeach
2005-11-15 06:58 pm UTC (link)
i am going to have to beg to differ on the following:

The Church of God she will not bend her knees
to the gods of this world though they promise her peace
She stands her ground, stands firm on the Rock
Watch their walls tumble down when she lives out His love


it'd be great if that's actually what happens. but the church doesn't live out Christ's love, and never will be able to.

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[info]drchuck
2005-11-15 09:34 pm UTC (link)
Well, how many walls in the world have you actually seen tumble lately?

Mullins was idealistic as all get-out, which is part of why I love his lyrics so much. The older he got in life, the more reflective and the more realistic he got (the line "It took the hand of God Almighty to part the waters of the sea/but it only took one little lie to separate you and me/We are not as strong as we think we are" kills me every time I hear it) but still, there is supposed to be poetry in the idealism.

That said: Yeah, we kind of suck at living up to that standard, don't we?

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