Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Chris' prayer: Jars of Clay's "Fade to Grey"

But in my state of blind confusion
No God can pull me out
This line caught my eye the first time I listened to this song because I didn't really understand what Dan Haseltine meant. No God can pull me out? But my God is all powerful. He can do whatever He wants. And then I remembered- He can do whatever He wants...except for one thing. He won't force Himself on us. We have the freedom to turn toward or away from God, and He respects that choice. The only reason God couldn't, or wouldn't, pull me out of a state of blind confusion would be because I don't let Him.

Sadly, there are plenty of times where I don't let God in on what I'm doing. I try to keep Him boxed up and let Him be around only when it is convenient, or only when it is easy. But blind confusion is not easy. I need to let God into the tough times, into all times.


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1 comment:

Jen said...

Yes, Dan confuses me sometimes too. But I like your understanding of it; it's true, sometimes God can't do anything if we've hardened our hearts about it. That's something he mentions in the song about how we have to have our hard hearts go back to clay.