songs & scripture: a relationship March 2, 2010

So there’s been quite a few songs lately where the lyrics just pop out at me like, WOW. I suppose its the combination of good words with music that makes it so powerful. I was just contemplating however, why it seems like lyrics seem more powerful than Scripture. I feel like this shouldn’t be. Maybe its the fact that I’m listening, while driving, (most times) when it hits me. Maybe its because I’m singing it, over and over. If I read Scripture over and over, and sang it, would it be as powerful? It says that the Word is living and active– is it as living and active as my music, in my life?
I don’t suppose I’ll figure out the answer to this any time soon. But as a quick fix, I am going to list the lyrics that move me, and then try to match up some Scripture with them. I figure that’s a good a start as any. Here goes:

TobyMac– Captured

I’m Your prisoner by choice/I will rest at Your feet…

All I wanna do/ is get into You /You got me captured/by Your love/ All I wanna do/ is stay here with You/ You got me raptured/ Can’t get enough

Romans 6:18-19

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

Psalm 63:3

Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.

Leeland–Beginning and the End

Out of darkness into light/I know that I will be alright /Here inside Your hands/I never want to stray too far/Just want to be where You are /Here inside Your plan/And You’re the center of /The beginning and the end

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You have plans for me /You’ve given me a hope and a future/You have plans for me /You’ve given me a hope and a future/(I place my life inside your hands /You hold for me a perfect plan)/And You are… /The beginning and the end

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

Psalm 138:8

The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever–do not abandon the works of your hands.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

The Rocket Summer—I Need a Break…But I’d Rather Have a Breakthrough

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I need a break, but i’d rather have a breakthrough/I’m losing my sleep, running after You/still i’d rather have a breakthrough/so I don’t stop/making moves/i need a break, but i’d rather have a breakthrough/i’m tripping on hurdles/running after You

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Ephesians 5:10

and find out what pleases the Lord

Ephesians 5:16

making the most out of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

John Mark McMillan—Alive

Well they say that a man can never go home/But I just can’t get out of your front yard

What if I could be/Something more than me/They say that I got a disease/Of the human kind/Maybe all I know is/In your arms and in your eyes/I’m more than alive

Psalm 84:10

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Romans 6:11

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.