"Realise who you are through humility before the mighty nature of the most High, so at the proper time, He can raise you up. Place your cares and concerns upon Him, because He truly cares for you". 1 Peter 5:6 & 7.
Any of you who have caught the teaser of the new series of talks on Exodus this past week will probably have been overwhelmed by the insight into the difference in respect of power they have identified between the likes of Moses and Pharaoh (see here to view what I'm referring to).
God alone can take the chaos, be it cosmological, social or personal, and fashion it into something reflective of true beauty and splendour, but it takes the working of His word to bring about such a healing through a redemptive process (think about creation itself as a taking of what was 'empty' and framing it into something exceedingly good).
It was with these ideas in play that I came across Leanne Rimes recent new release this week. As an artists that has often gone against the grain, this song does not hold back on 'telling it like it is' in respect to the profound need we all share for release from these present trials, cleverly weaving some current popular aspirations with a far more continual longing we all share, as evidenced in earlier popular songs.
I valued the honesty Leanne conveys, both in the anguish and the cry of the soul, but this needs to be married to the union Peter expounds in the verses above.
Jesus Christ brings us the 'sweet chariot' of Himself, veiled in genuine humanity, that we may become participants of the most precious union in heaven and earth - that is where we find our way home.
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