"Committed to Love."

So, I was able to enjoy a nice sunday morning church service for the first time in some while. Working weekend retreats kind'a takes that away. But I went with my parents to Phillippi Baptist Church in Edgefield and the pastor there, who just started a few weeks ago, Pastor Josh McClendon, preached a message I'm pretty sure was just for me. :)

He preached out of Matthew 22. The Pharisee's were attempting to trap Jesus in a corner. They asked Him what the greatest commandment of all was. Jesus, of course, responded with "Loving the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." One of the best statement I think Pastor Josh made was the idea of being "committed to love." It's a commandment, and so, just like any other commandment God has given us, we can either choose to obey or disobey.

So, tomorrow, when you wake up, that's when you must decide if you're going to obey or disobey. Are you going to love your neighbor and the Lord your God? It's not a question of weather or not you're in a good mood, or weather the people you're around that day are easy to love. The only question is, will you obey. So let's try and do something very inhuman of us. Let's be committed to love one another, regardless the situation.

 - The Sound (John Perkins Blues)

This is the sound of a heartbeat.

This is the sound of the discontented mouths

Of a haunted nation. We are the voice of breaking down.

Can you hear me? This is the sound

Of a desperation bound

By our own collisions 

We are the voice of breaking down.

 So, this is the lyrics to the course of one of my favorite songs by switchfoot. 

It pretty much sums up what I've talked about for the last couple of blogs. Whenever Jon Foreman talks about sound, it usually symbolizes love. So I believe that when he says "sound of a heartbeat" I think he could be talking about our human-version of love. Then it goes on to say that we're discontented and haunted. Meaning even though we've changed love to meet our "needs" we're still unsatisfied and unsettled by everything around us. Then he simply says that this is just a path to destruction. "This is the sound of a desperation bound by our own collisions."

This is, of course, my simple interpretation of the song. Just kinda what it said to me. And it was a sudden realization to me that it had a lot to do with what I was writting about on my blog.