Losing My Religion
We purchased this old song for Rock Band awhile ago and every time you can pick the song you do, I make the family play it so I can sing it. Thankfully, they like it, too. Having had the opportunity to sing this song repeatedly, I have become very familiar with the lyrics. I can feel God, at times, screaming at me through this song.
On so many levels, though not completely, this song speaks to me. I love the way God uses music in my life. The opening line is a big one when you look at this through a different view. “Life is bigger, bigger than you, and you are not me. The lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes.” How we fail to see that life is bigger than us and we are not God. Do we forget what He does for us, do we ignore the sacrifices He makes for us? Yes, daily.
“That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight of losing my religion.” I think if there is something Jesus wants us to do, it’s to lose our religion. I think He wants us to forget about traditions and propriety and move into a deeper more meaningful relationship with Him. Put yourself in the corner, put yourself in His light and lose the religion and cling to the relationship.
“Every whisper, of every waking hour, I’m choosing my confessions. Trying to keep an eye on you, like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool.” Every thing we say, every time we talk to Him, do we poor our hearts out to the One who already knows it all, or do we try to hide ourselves even from Him? Do we try to keep Him in His place and not too close to what we really are? Who we really are? We are hurt, lost and blinded fools.
“Consider this, consider this, the hint of the century. Consider this the slip that brought me to my knees, failed.” In all of this we fail. We have failed. The hint of your life, consider it you are not God, lose the head, get the heart, He already knows you. Let Him bring you to your knees, failed. When He lifts you back up, it will not be just a dream, and you will have a reason to try and cry.
