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I Choose Jesus!

In my previous post, I shared a song entitled I Choose You by Sara Bareilles. It appears to be a love song. However, I wanted to share my thoughts on how this song speaks to me in a religious context. I hear it as “I Choose You Jesus!”

In this post, I will lay out each verse of the song. After each verse I will insert a bullet with my thoughts on that verse. So here it goes:

I Choose You by Sara Bareilles

Let the bough break, let it come down crashing, Let the sun fade out to a dark sky; I can’t say I’d even notice it was absent ’cause I could live by the light in your eyes.

My first thought on this is – the light of Christ shines in the darkness. When you have Christ in your heart, darkness, however you may be experiencing it, will not win. It is Christ that brings us peace, it is Christ that carries us through the difficult times.
My second thought is – the eyes are the windows to the soul. When people look into your eyes, what do they see? What are you projecting? Are you projecting the light of Christ?

I’ll unfold before you, would have strung together, the very first words of a lifelong love letter.

Unfolding – becoming your True Self and maintaining a strong, deep, personal and faithful relationship with Christ.

Chorus

Tell the world that we finally got it all right, I choose you. I will become yours and you will become mine, I choose you.

Let the world know you are a follower of Christ. As Scripture suggests, don’t hide your lamp under a bushel basket. Let people closest to you know what a personal relationship with Christ means to you. Christ humbled himself to share in our humanity so that we might share in His divinity.

There was a time when I would have believed them if they told me that you could not come true. Just love’s illusion. But then you found me and everything changed and I believe in something again.

There’s a time when we are distracted by the “way of the world.” We may even question the existence of God but He never gives up on us. As a matter of fact, He is with us always. There’s actually a Poem called The Hound of Heaven that speaks to this. He is constantly working in us and eventually we GET IT! Everything changes – we believe, we surrender, we find PEACE!

My whole heart, will be yours forever, this is a beautiful start to a lifelong love letter.

A transformed heart, dependent on Christ and seeking to please Him in all things.

We are not perfect we’ll learn from our mistakes and as long as it takes I will prove my love to you. I’m not scared of the elements I am underprepared but I am willing and even better, I get to be the other half of you.

Repentant of our failings, we are constantly striving to get it right. Courageous, we dare to be counter-cultural, knowing that God is with us and even better – the more we aim to please Him our reward will be great in heaven AND on earth as we share in His divinity.

I’ve added the link to the song above just in case you’d like to listen one more time after reading this interpretation.

I hope you enjoyed it! God bless you!

Holy Temple

On the heels of my posting “Believing is not enough”, I came across this reading which brings it all together. Our God is an awesome God!

You are strangers and aliens no longer. No, you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God. You form a building which rises on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone. Through him the whole structure is fitted together and takes shape as a holy temple in the Lord; in him you are being built into this temple, to become a dwelling place for God in the Spirit.

Did you get the same sense I got when reading this? Our connection to the spiritual? Our participation in the communion of saints? The bridging of the gap between Heaven and Earth? Our purpose is written here in black and white. It couldn’t be any clearer. We are to become a dwelling place for God in the Spirit!