Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape

It's been one of those times when I've been reminded that the lessons I am currently learning are lessons I have already learned, multiple times. Things like: If you don't trust God, all the time, with everything, bad things will happen. Duh, I know that. But apparently not.

I love Underoath... Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear

Here are the lyrics:

Good God, if Your song leaves our lips  

If Your work leaves our hands  

Then we will be wanderers and vagabonds  

They will stare and say how empty we are  

How the freedom we had turned us up as dead men
Let us be cold, make us weak 

Let us because we all have ears  

Let us because we all have eyes  

Good God
How they knew that this would happen? 

They knew, they knew that this would  

(We’re so run down)  

How they knew that this would happen?  

Good God, can You still get us home?

Good God, can You still get us home?

How can we still get home? (I’m not dreaming) How can we still get home? 
 

We’re forgetting our forgiveness

I think there is also a huge temptation to fix yourself before coming to God. While we are called in Romans 12 to present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable, we aren't getting there by ourselves, and if we try to get there before we go to God, we are missing the point of his grace through Jesus. Judging from the Old Testament (haha Judges, get it), I'm not the first person to struggle with being an epically slow learner. The Children of Israel were kind of disastrous too.

I've never understood why God wants to save people that he knows are going to turn away, sin, and break his heart. But if I could understand God, he wouldn't be that awesome, because I barely understand how a TV works. So now I am trying to remember the challenge of Hebrews 2:3- "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?" The point is not why God has offered salvation, but that he has, and this necessitates a response, not out of obligation but joy.

This Underoath song has been one of my favorites for the last 6-7 years... and the Passion of the Christ video with it is pretty much amazing.
 
Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape 

 I heard a voice through the discord
Of a deluge of passersby.
I saw one gaze frozen in time
Watching me passing by.
I swear I'll know your face in the crowd,
And I'll hear your voice so loud
When you're whispering...
Hey unfaithful I will teach you
To be stronger, to be stronger.
Hey ungraceful I will teach you
To forgive one another.
Here's my kiss to betray
Desperate to brush the lips of grace.
Do you feel hollow when you think of how I've lied?
Oh sweet angel of mercy with your grace like the morning
Wrap your loving arms around me.
Oh sweet angel of mercy with your grace like the morning
Wrap your loving arms around me.
Hey unfaithful I will teach you
To be stronger, to be stronger.
Hey ungraceful I will teach you
To forgive one another.
Hey unfaithful I will teach you
To be stronger, to be stronger.
Hey unloving, I will love you,
I will love you, I will love you.
Hey unloving
I will love you

Jesus I'm ready to come home.