Today though Thursday I am pretending it is Wednesday.
Though I can no longer hear these videos well enough to understand my wife can, and sometimes I just want to recall the memories.
In the late seventies, there was a new music scene taking place and WOW what a change in style and in orientation. It was led by the likes of Honeytree, Keith Green, Dallas Holm, Don Francisco and others. It was new, it was fresh, it was alive, and it was full of energy. Today we just call it contemporary music, back then it was called what it was; a heartfelt cry by those younger to enjoy, create, encourage, and inspire others to come to know the one who they loved as a dear savior. They called this music in honor of the one they called Lord; Jesus Music.
This particular song has always had a special place for me, when I am down and confused; or even worse I know I have knowingly blown it. I want to hide, I want to crawl in a shell, a cocoon, a hole where no one will touch me, bother me, or I just want to be left alone. I tend to avoid my prayer time, and time in God’s word somehow thinking that I can hide from God as well. Yet I was not the first man who knew he had blown it, and tried to hide from a God, he had an intimate walk with up to that moment. A walk with God so real and alive we will know only when we reach Paradise again. So, basically I am just carrying on my descendant’s behavior.
Yet, who was he fooling? Who am I fooling? How do you hide from an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-present God.
The song in this video reminds me of what the loving awesome one who loves me more than I could possibly understand or grasp must be doing when I try to hide. When I fail to remember his radical awesome grace. It never fails he catches me and reminds me of his tender mercies. I find myself going AKAW!! which is a term surfers use to describe the perfect wave or being surprised or shocked. When I am reminded and I hear him Going Pat Pat Where Are You and again I am driven to my knees crying
Dad, I’m sorry I was hiding, I was ashamed. I am afraid, I am scared. I hear him saying it is OK I understand, and I love you.
This song echoes those thoughts and words for me.
I hope you enjoy
God Bless
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