April 7, 2003

  • Redemption

    "Lord, I give you my heart, I give you my soul...
    Have your way in me."

    We sang this on Sunday.  Honestly, the last words of this praise song has a heavy sexual connotation to me.  And I can't help but think about it every time we sing it.  Yes, true confessions:  I am thinking about sex during worship service!

    In my non-Christian days, I used to talk to these guys with whom every other sentence - yes, even normal sentences - were sexualized.  Every statement was a double entrendre.  We threw around words of seduction to each other such as, "You can HAVE YOUR WAY WITH ME."  (Yes, the exact words in the aforementioned praise song.) 

    And here's where "redemption" is amazing.  When I sing those words to God, I remember what those words used to mean to me... but NOW they have been transformed into something very different  -- even HOLY -- a desire for God to have that kind of free-for-all, free-for-anything, intense thorough control over me and in me.

    It amazes me that God can redeem my past sexually immoral transgressions for something eternally beautiful.

Comments (2)

  • wow.  i totally understand what you mean!!  the sad thing is that that was me like, last year.  but thank GOODNESS for God's grace and perfect forgiveness.

    that song totally spoke to me too, in that the lyrics were about total complete surrender...every breath that i take, every moment i'm awake.  i don't even think about God that much, but then to allow him complete control of my life every waking moment?  yeah...i'm sooo not there.. 

    and once again you've given me more to think about   i love you mary ann!!  thanks for the great time this weekend

  • man when we were singing that this Sunday, it almost drove me to tears.. the line that stood out to me...  "all  that I adore, is in You" and because of that.. "Lord I give you my heart, I give you my soul..."

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