You Already Are

Today, I bring you the lyrics to the song "In His Name" by Tyson Motsenbocker.  It's the first song the album, Letters to Lost Loves.  I encourage you all to check it out.  The story of the album is very moving.  This song, speaks so much truth to what many people face and how many people are seeing this Jesus thing.  Especially that line towards the end...when one of his friends was claiming he prayed for Mavericks to make more shots, and they did.  And that was God helping them.  But where was God in his moms illness?

You were loudly living

On your final ninety pounds

Crosslegged on the south porch

With a bible in your hand

And when I prayed for healing

My father's words rang through the door

Son I don't think Jesus is in business

Of healing anymore

Well maybe he is occupied with other people's wars

Or he's organized militia to fight the war on Christmas

or maybe he's protecting our children from the gays

Who have promised to destroy this utopia we've made

In His name

In His name

In His name

The early fathers writing

To build a younger church up tall

Saying faith without the action isn't anything at all

I know perspective isn't static

Between what I see and what you do

But if you choose to stand by idly, then what does that make you?

Well I hear that you've been speaking through the man on the tv

And you've helped the Dallas Mavericks with their field goal percentage

So when my mother's doctor calls again with more bad news

It's an honest heart's reaction - who, my God, have you been listening to?

In His name

In His name

In His name

Honest hearts reaction.  That's kinda where I am.  I've been asking for God, if one such exists, to prove it.  And not in some I see God in the trees and the birds and every breath I take type way.  I want to experience something unlike any other that undoubtedly speaks to me of God's existence.  I'd even settle for a Holy Spirit moment.  But I'll be honest....I've experienced little moments every now and then that are so totally random to a point that keep me on the hook a bit longer.  But i'm only holding the hook in my mouth, it's not stuck in my cheek.  

I've heard many people talk about doing more.  About living out their faith more.  Something about this feeling that they aren't doing enough.  I had someone ask me the other day what more they could do to fight against injustice, like I do in my writing.  I never considered my writing as fighting any injustice.  I just sit at the computer and ramble about what's on my mind.  But I guess it is.  I guess it's making others aware of the things I hear.  If 100 people read this and each tell someone else who tell someone else...words spread.  It almost makes what I say in these things a little more important.  But the person that asked me what they could do, I can't answer that.  This person is already a good person.  They are already enough.  But doing more is easy...speak up.  When you see an injustice, speak up about it.  When you hear someone speak hate, don't be silent opening the door for others to think you consent with the hate.  This is why I suggest to the "good" christians out there you need to stop being silent if you don't like what how your faith is being represented.  Especially from talking heads in D.C.

I heard a sermon yesterday from a pastor who dreams and prays of revival to happen.  It was an honest plea.  But if I could be honest.  It's happening for you already.  A major church expansion and building, an acquisition of another facility, several other churches using your teachings, and new people arriving weekly.   Seems like a revival to me.  Unless promotions, buildings, locations, and numbers aren't really revivals.  Is not the revival of one lost soul enough?