Letters from the Equator

Sometimes songs are too catchy. I found myself bobbing my head to a catchy part of this song from Caedmon Call’s 40 acres, when the words came out “If I could just get a bit more, More than my 15 minutes of faith, Then I’d be secure” …. and then I stopped when I realized the words were about a falsehood of our relationship with God.

And it’s true about my life, too… as though my more than 15 minutes of faith would pay the ‘dues’ I owe to God to make me feel secure. But I realize if I had to pay anything, I’d had to pay dearly with my life and probably more.

I admit I only do that to Christian music. I think there are a lot of other stuff I listen to that are a lot worse, but at the same time not to the point of being dishonest or spiritually degrading. Otherwise, I think I wouldn’t be able to take it.

So, I’ll just stand on grace.

Caedmon’s Call – Shifting Sand

Sometimes I believe all the lies

So I can do the things I should despise

And every day I am swayed

By whatever is on my mind

I hear it all depends on my faith

So I’m feeling precarious

The only problem I have with these mysteries

Is they’re so mysterious

And like a consumer I’ve been thinking

If I could just get a bit more

More than my 15 minutes of faith,

Then I’d be secure

My faith is like shifting sand

Changed by every wave

My faith is like shifting sand

So I stand on grace

I’ve begged you for some proof

For my Thomas eyes to see

A slithering staff, a leperous hand

And lions resting lazily

A glimpse of your back-side glory

And this soaked altar going ablaze

But you know I’ve seen so much

I explained it away

My faith is like shifting sand

Changed by every wave

My faith is like shifting sand

So I stand on grace

Waters rose as my doubts reigned

My sand-castle faith, it slipped away

Found myself standing on your grace

It’d been there all the time

My faith is like shifting sand

Changed by every wave

My faith is like shifting sand

So I’ll stand on grace…

Stand on grace…