The Bride of Christ and Train

Forever can never be long enough for me
To feel like I've had long enough with you
Forget the world now we won't let them see
But there's one thing left to do

Now that the weight has lifted
Love has surely shifted my way
Marry Me
Today and every day
Marry Me
If I ever get the nerve to say
Hello in this cafe
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Mm-hmm

Together can never be close enough for me
To feel like I am close enough to you
You wear white and I'll wear out the words I love you
And you're beautiful
Now that the wait is over
And love and has finally shown her my way
Marry me
Today and every day
Marry me
If I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Mm-hmm

Promise me
You'll always be
Happy by my side
I promise to
Sing to you
When all the music dies

And marry me
Today and everyday
Marry me
If I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Marry me
Mm-hmm

I'm sure just about everyone has heard this song. The song is titled "Marry Me" of Train's newest album "Save Me San Francisco."

A random thought came to my mind when I was listening to this song this morning. What if we saw this song from Christ's perspective? What if we took these words to heart?

Forever can never be long enough for me
To feel like I've had long enough with you
Forget the world now we won't let them see
But there's one thing left to do

In this first verse, it starts out talking about how he longs to be with this person. Christ longs to be involved in our everyday life. But we continually shun him from taking all of our lifestyle.

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. - Isaiah 53:1-12

The second part of this verse talks about forgetting the world. When we accept our new life through Christ we are supposed to put off all of our old worldly desires. This means EVERYTHING that was of the world. Most of you have probably heard the phrase "In the world, not of it." That is a great reminder while we are on our walk with Christ.

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.- Ephesians 4:22-24

Now that the weight has lifted
Love has surely shifted my way
Marry Me
Today and every day
Marry Me
If I ever get the nerve to say
Hello in this cafe
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Mm-hmm

Here's where it gets good, it begins to talk about marrying. Marrying is a form of commitment. "Marry me, today and everyday." This is talking about the daily commitment we have to partake in to follow Christ. We have to daily make the decision to try to be Christ-like. Christ wants nothing more than us to make that commitment daily and allow him to work through our flaws and purify our imperfections.

Great video clip to deal with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhfUzodLRvk

Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day. - 1 Kings 8:61


Together can never be close enough for me
To feel like I am close enough to you
You wear white and I'll wear out the words I love you
And you're beautiful
Now that the wait is over
And love and has finally shown her my way
Marry me
Today and every day
Marry me
If I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe
Say you will
Mm-hmm
Say you will
Mm-hmm


Christ wants to be the center of our lives and its a constant battle within us. Throughout scripture, it talks about the church being the bride of Christ.


Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.- Revelation 19:7-8

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  - Revelation 21:2

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. - Ephesians 5:25-27

Also, another reference to being the bride is here by "You wear white and I'll wear out the words 'I Love You' and 'Your Beautiful.'"

Christ loves us and always reminds us of how he created all of us and that we are each Christ's original masterpiece. We are his, and he doesn't make crap. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made!

Just some food for thought, please comment and tell me what you think, or add your own input to this.

Sacramental Salvation

Hello Everyone,

This is one of my favorite poems I have ever written.

Any type of criticism is welcome, in fact I love it!


To finish and fulfill my creators desire,
Nails were hammered and forged by fire.
Wood unrefined by polish and wax,
But covered in splinters, cut down by an axe.
A pretty polished board with I.N.R.A.,
Meaning that Jesus the king of the Jews died here today.
Beaten and bruised from his feet to his head.
Carrying his cross, knowing he was soon to be dead.
Risen with prisoners on his right and his left.
Still showing God’s love till only one unbeliever was left.
No greater love has ever been shown,
For the wages of sin pierced him down to the bone.


Let me know what ya think.

God Bless,
Brent

Faith Like a Child...

Hello Everyone,

I am going to start sharing some of my poetry. I love any type of criticism, so if you have anything that would be constructive or negative. Feel Free to comment.

Well here is my first poem on here.

Faith Like a Child...



Faith like a child,

Potentially unexplainable.

With Christ as my guide,

Anything is attainable.

Reasons for doubting,

My treason within.

For my many a time trying,

To cover these sins.

Grace was given,

Yet undeserved by man.

Hopefully, following,

God's unforseen plan.

A prayer,

A call,

When the day has grown dim.

My Savior's responding,

By calling me friend.

What is Playing in Your Heart?

A pastor that I worked under previously showed a clip in church of a guy that finds a stethoscope on the ground and begins holding it up to everything and they are all playing different songs. Before I go too far, here is the clip

Colossians 1:27
Contemporary English Version (CEV)

"27God did this because he wanted you Gentiles to understand his wonderful and glorious mystery. And the mystery is that Christ lives in you, and he is your hope of sharing in God's glory."

What an interesting video, the first time I watched it I laughed hysterically. I loved the part on the dog playing "Bad to the Bone."

At the same time, the relevance of this clip is great! What song is playing in your heart? Are you glorifying God through everything you do, so with all your being you are able to praise Christ?

The following week for my Wednesday night lesson, we watched the Book of Eli and talked about God's will for our lives. We talked about how sin can interfere with us doing what we are supposed to. The thing is, CHRIST IS STRONGER THAN ANY SIN WE CAN COMMIT!!! Isn't that great news?

I asked my youth kids if they knew what God had planned for them? What was God's will for them? 

One of them replied, "I don't know Gods plan for the rest of my life."

We all don't know what Christ has in store for the rest of our lives, but we DO know what Christ's will is for us right now! We don't have day planners for our entire life telling us what to do each day. We have to be willing to listen to what God has planned for us! We have to listen, we have to study, we have to live our lives accordingly to the goodness of his word. Sure we all fall away from God's will occasionally, but the beauty of it is whether it's 10 million miles or 10 inches off course. Christ is there to get us back on track as soon as we want to.

To end the lesson off, we talked about Jesus being tempted in the desert. I asked them, why do you think that Jesus replied to every single temptation with "It is written?" Every time, he replies with those three words. I had a couple responses saying that Christ was just quoting scripture that God wrote to show the importance of God's word. 

That might be, but at the same time. Christ was human just like us when he came down. I believe that he also quoted scripture as a sign of reassurance for himself. HE WAS TEMPTED JUST LIKE US! If there is a possibility that Christ used scripture for reassurance, then why don't we?

When we are faced with temptation, why don't we quote scripture to ourselves? There is more than that that needs to be done, we also have to walk away from that temptation. I want to know what you think, is quoting scripture a good idea? Have you ever thought about that? What is the song that your heart is playing? 

Comment me

For those who are interested in scripture, here are a couple that I posted up on Wednesday.

Pornography/Lust –

1 Corinthians 6:18-20, 

Psalms 119:37, 

Matthew 5:28

Greed – 

Hebrews 13:5, 

1 Timothy 6:10, 

Proverbs 28:25

Anger/Hatred – 

1 John 4:20, 

1 John 2:9, 

Matthew 5:44

Drinking – 

Ephesians 5:18, 

Galatians 5:21, 

1 Peter 5:8

Betrayal/Lying-

Proverbs19:5, 

Mattthew 7:12, 

1 Peter 2:1

Defiance-

Colossians 3:20, 

James 4:17

Indifference-

Romans 12:2, 

Mark 16:16

Temptation (In General)- 

Hebrews 4:15, 

2 Peter 1:21

God Bless,

Brent