I am not typically a "mushy" type of person. I don't like to cry in movies and, for the most part, I can keep it together. I am not easily captivated by much and I like to try and maintain composure with most things. However, music gets me. Not only do I find myself singing songs over and over and over until my roommates finally tell me to shut-up, I also can't help myself from looking up lyrics to songs and digging for the deeper meaning in the songs I like. In a day and age where I feel as if music has completely lost it's value, I am captivated by the fact that Christian artists are still able to speak truth into my heart. Putting those truths to a melody somehow makes it that much more impactful in my life for some reason.
One of the songs that has particularly been on my mind lately is David Crowder Band's "Like a Lion." I heard the song first over the summer when I attended a high school summer camp (it was 6000 people and I just decided to tag along to a talk one night) and it has stuck with me ever since. Chris Tomlin, a well known Christian artist, was the worship leader and he sang the song the night I heard it. Maybe it was because of the 6000 people worshipping Jesus together that made that moment so memorable, but I'll never forget it. The song is a proclamation that Jesus is alive and working in the believer's heart. It is a bold statement of faith and trust in God to be the Savior of my life and I fully believe it's truth. The words to the chorus are as follows:
My God is not dead,
He's surely alive
and He's living on the inside,
roaring like a lion
These words seem simple. It is just a statement saying that my God is alive. Think of the meaning of these words though. Lions are beautiful wild creatures that are characterized as being strong and powerful. Never are they considered weak, never are they considered feeble. They are mighty animals of the wild. Their roar strikes fear in the minds of the animals within ear-shot and it symbolizes their readiness for attack. In this case, when the song illustrates Jesus as roaring like a lion, it is illustrating God's power over death. The Bible says that death has no victory over Jesus and God's children. How can death be conquered? It is an abstract idea that the world will never understand. No one living understands what it means to be dead, and no deceased person can portray these feelings to us. How can one have victory over this type of concept?? I'll never understand, but I'm thankful that God is the victor. When Chris Tomlin sang that our God is not dead, but SURELY alive, I couldn't help but to think how often I doubt his power. Freedom is one of the things that I talked about in a previous blog and it is something that we, as humans, strive so hard to attain. What is freedom, though? How is one free from death? I am free from death because Jesus reconciled me to Him THROUGH death. It no longer reigns in my life or in my thoughts. Death is literally scared away from me because God is figuratively and literally roaring it away as a lion would do. God has great power and great might and no one can take it away from Him. My God is not dead, He's surely alive and He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion. Praise God.
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