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I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

by Lon on October 13, 2009

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This must be one of the top five most overplayed U2 songs ever. But it’s still worth mentioning.

I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you

I have run I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven’t found
What I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found
What I’m looking for

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
But I still haven’t found
What I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found
What I’m looking for

I believe in the Kingdom Come
Then all the colours will bleed into one
But yes I’m still running
You broke the bounds
You loosed the chains
You carried the cross
And my shame
And my shame
You know I believe it
But I still haven’t found
What I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found
What I’m looking for

This song still resonates today because it connects with the struggle of the human spirit.

No matter how much you’ve steeped yourself in routine and the mundane, there’s something inside of us all that remains unsettled, longing for more.

We try everything we can to satisfy that craving. Relationships, children, love, significance, unique experiences, and yet something still gnaws at our souls.

Some of us even discover God. The last section of the lyrics speak of Christ, and not what we can accomplish, but what God has already done. Taking the chains and our shame away. Replacing it with freedom.

Yet we’re still running, searching. At least I am.

Because with all that freedom and grace, I still find myself rejecting it. If it’s true what the Scriptures say, that belief must lead to actions, then the truth is, I spend my days not really believing.

And so, I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Though I sure hope to someday.

* btw, that lyric “I believe in the Kingdom Come, Then all the colours will bleed into one” I’ve got to say is sheer brilliance. But how much blood must first be shed? Or has it already been shed, but then why aren’t we ‘one’?

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Favorite quote…

by Lon on November 17, 2008

My favorite quote of the weekend…

“God doesn’t move nearly fast enough to please me…”

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Worth dying for…

by Lon on May 20, 2008

Some provoking words from our American brother (since it seems us Canadians have no real heroes besides the queen):

To our most bitter opponents we say:  “Throw us in jail and we will still love you.  Bomb our houses and threaten our children and we will still love you.  Beat us and leave us half dead, and we will still love you.  But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer.

One day we shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.  ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “The American Dream”

Who opposes you today?  Who or what are you willing to go to jail for, or be beaten for?  Do you have something you are this passionate about?

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Christians before the empire took over…

by Lon on May 13, 2008

It is the Christians, O Emperor, who have sought and found the truth, for they acknowledge God. They do not keep for themselves the goods entrusted to them. They do not covet what belongs to others. They show love to their neighbors. They do not do another what they would not wish to have done to themselves. They speak gently to those who oppress them, and in this way they make them their friends.

It has become their passion to do good to their enemies. They live in the awareness of their smallness. Every one of them who has anything gives ungrudgingly to the one who has nothing. If they see a traveling stranger, they bring him under their roof. They rejoice over him as over a real brother, for they do not call one another brothers after the flesh, but they know they are brothers in the Spirit and in God.

If they hear that one of them is imprisoned or oppressed for the sake of Christ, they take care of all his needs. If possible they set him free. If anyone among them is poor or comes into want while htey themselves have nothing to spare, they fast two or three days for him. In this way they can supply any poor man with the food he needs. This, O Emperor, is the rule of life of the Christians, and this is their manner of life.

- Aristides 137 AD.

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True community…

by Lon on December 21, 2007

I’ve been re-reading Houses that Change the World by Wolfgang Simson as I’ve been looking for more clarity going forward in life.

Here’s a quote in the book by Art Katz, a Messianic Jew, where he speaks of true community

Community life pulverizes your old ego in the power of the Spirit of God, and rescues you from just living a miserable private life, where after loving each other during a one-hour worship service a week we rush home to water our flowers, sit on our porch, eat our individual meals and wash our car. We need to start to function as part of the fellowship of the redeemed. As the redeemed, we do not go home after a service, we are at home with each other.

Update: You can download the entire book legitimately here for free. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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