On My Soapbox

Once again I will go in my hole against some music. As pointed out to me yesterday, "We Bow Down" makes no sense. The words say we bow down and crown him the king. But what are we crowning him the king of? Now Jesus in no means is "stuck-up" but what can we really crown him? Some selfish crown by us does nothing. The Father has already crowned him King. Are we crowning him the king of our lives? Well, that doesn't make much sense because we are still sinners. We are sinners saved by grace, but we are still sinners. That crown does not really work because then you are attributing your sins to Christ. Christ did die for our sins, but basically you are telling the world that you are doing evil and Christ is helping you do evil. The ultimate crown for Jesus is the one given by the Father. Nothing that we can do will ever match up to that.
We live in an evil age where the Devil is tempting us every day. This is a fact. We have glory to look forward to, but until that day we have the devil looming over us. Most people repeat certain sins and everytime they do so the Devil looms over and says "haha, you did it again." At the same time the devil has provoked you to do it, so it is a double portion. We get coaxed into things all the time and the moment that it happens and we realize that we have done it we feel guilty about it. This is certainly the devil at work. But God looks down at us and says "don't worry my child, I sent MY son to take care of that. If you confess your wrong I am faithful to forgive you."
I have posted it many times before, but this stanza just hits me right now:
And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,Even so, it is well with my soul.

Why?

I have often wondered why people go to church. What really is the reasoning? Do they view it as some kind of penance? Like if they go to church X amount of times that guarantees that they will see God in Heaven? I feel that church just get stagnant for so many people. They say that they have to go to church but they are not really sure why. Is there actually a reason for you to go to church? We are supposed to gather as a covenant body, but when we gather are we really praising God? Sometimes I would challenge that. We will take for instance Dr. Clark's favorite song, "Shine, Jesus, Shine." What in that song actually is worshipful? We are telling Christ to start shining in this world. Isn't Christ already shining but we are diming him? Come on, that has to be it. Just looking over the lyrics again makes me sick. We are humans, prone to sin, and we are demanding that Christ do something? Christ already did something for us. He died for our sins and we are still saying that he needs to do more. (I am not admitting to a works principle here.) God will never take himself away from his people, but that is what this song is saying. It tells you that God has left and it begs for him to come back. This is not what worship should stand for. Worship is about singing praise to God telling him that we are not worthy and thanking him for choosing us. That is what it is all about, not self-centeredness. I have gone through ups and downs and the one thing that always remains is that Christ died for our sins and even if the devil tells us that we are not good enough Christ has made us good enough.
I was listening to Mulletman last night and he actually said that Moses had no identity because his earthly father provided him with nothing. He was talking about nothing but self-esteem. Mulletman insists this because in Exodus 3:11 Moses says "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" Yes, it is wonderful if we know our earthly parents (I love mine) but we get self esteem, or should, because we know God and Christ. If we are replacing them with things of this world we do have nothing. It doesn't matter how good your parents tell you you are, you are nothing without knowing who the Savior is and why he did what he did. You cannot know your true identity if you don't know the Father's identity. Many people can tell you who you are, but it is only God who can tell you truly who you are.