have you ever been prompted to look again at someone, after many years and journeys have passed? something stirred, something deeper than curiosity…
and so i looked, to find, an artist i used to enjoy many years ago, only to find that she has created a double album called Theology. now, let me make it clear that her intentions seem to have nothing to do with deep conviction, or a need to reaffirm a love for Christ and Father, but something incredulous unfolded as i began to listen to these songs.
now, by her own mouth, come the words that she wanted to create something of peace in a time of war. fascinating because many of the lyrics derived from the Old Testament look as follows…
Sadness will come to those who build house to house
And lay field to field ’til there’s room
For none but U to dwell in the land
Oh in the land
And sadness will come to those who call evil good
And good evil
Who present darkness as light and light as darkness
Who present as sweetness only the things which are
bitterness
For the vineyard of The Lord of Hosts
Is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah his pleasant plant
i’m amazed that, she is clearly stirred of the Lord, and yet completely misses the mark. war is coming, ushering ultimately, the Lord’s return, but she can’t see it! something has captured her attention, and she knows not why…i’m almost tempted to send her a solid hilighted NKJ, with red marks all over Isaiah and Revelation…
i’m even more intrigued that she’s picking up on the nuances of Song of Songs…
Dark I am yet lovely as tents of Kedar
As the pavilions of Solomon either
Don’t hate me because the sun has darkened me
All my mother’s sons were so angry with me
They made me watch the vineyards
My own things I did not guard
On my bed at night I sought whom my soul loves
Oh I sought I sought but I found him not
So I ask U daughters of Jerusalem
Where is my love? Oh tell me have U seen him?
Majestic as Lebanon stately as cedars
His mouth so delicious his fragrance so pleases
Such is my beloved such is my darling
And if U see him say my heart is pining
For the kisses of his mouth and his flavours
Oh the king had brought me into his chambers
Say I delight in his love
Say he’s the one my soul was
Vast floods can’t quench love no matter what love did
Rivers can’t drown love no matter where love’s hid
So when U do find him out
Bring him to my mother’s house
And into the chamber of her who conceived me
Then will he know me and then will he see me
Tell him that love isn’t done
Tell him don’t leave me alone
what is happening here? i’m convinced that corporate intercessory worship is moving in ways we still cannot fathom. i’m equally convinced that the prayers of the saints, held tightly by the Lord Himself, as He intercedes for us, have breathed an atmosphere of Truth in ways that cannot be comprehended. how often have we spoken these things in Houses of Prayer? sang them? whispered them in the nightwatch sets?
enough i’d say to move the heavens, and shake a woman in Dublin, who had previously destroyed a photo of the Pope (which sentimentally i agree with in gesture—anti-religiosity ruling, but the act of which is disgraceful…) to think twice on the true love of her life, Jesus. enough to make her step out and create an album, that will no doubt, we swallowed up by nostalgic grungies like myself. many of whom will be challenged.
go God! you rock!
p.s. in light of the IHOP community and others like us, CHOP, i am marveling in amusement that the front of her homepage says, “The Healing Room”
p.p.s i’m so stoked, i get to say “us” when referring to C-HOP! michael and i are going on staff! whoopy!
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