Think Before You Sing

When do you call out to the Lord? When do you prioritize God? When do you actively seek Him? If you are anything like me, you know how you want to answer those questions but in reality we fall short of those answers. I have verses from two songs that reflect these ideas. The first is All I Want by The Letter Black , this one is song from God’s perspective and is a cry to believe in Him. You take advantage of me Cause I won't turn you down Once you get what you want You push me to the side Why do you try to hurt me It's only hurting you I've always been right here waiting It is so easy to get caught up in this world and the things we do right. Or at least what we think we do right. Really, we are ungrateful for the gifts from above. Gifts that are always there. We also see in this language that it hurts God when we do these things. Genesis 6:5-7 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his hear...

At the end of last month The Letter Black released the song Rise . I just want to take a small dive into this. First of the title feels like they were late to the race with one of the songs from Nine Lashes released recently sharing the title. Overall The Letter Black song is about rising from the past. Once you get over the intro of the song that feels not quite like anything else the group has released. The first lyrics we are met with are It was never meant to be like this . I am a big fan of examples, I don’t typically appreciate just being thrown into something without explanation. The like this can just leave you asking like what. The first verse also has the line Always know what you’re running from . This almost points out that you can’t just start comparing things to nothing. I think there is a reason for leaving this so open though. The idea here is to connect this to every possible situation. If you take the time to read the description on the YouTube video it gets ...