2011-12-30

20111230_How Love Wins

這首歌一樣出自the Story這張專輯
是誰唱的?
上面寫Thief
聖經裡,誰是這樣的名字?

My life began like any other man
Held beneath a mother’s loving gaze
Somewhere between now and then
I lost the man I could have been
Took everything that wasn’t mine to take
But Love believes that it is not too late

Only one of us deserves this cross
A suffering that should belong to me
Deep within this man I hang beside
Is the place where shame and grace collide
And it’s beautiful agony
That He believes it’s not too late for me

This is how Love wins, every single time
Climbing high upon a tree where someone else should die
This is how Love heals, the deepest part of you
Letting Himself bleed into the middle of your wounds
This is what Love says, standing at the door
You don’t have to be who you’ve been before
Silenced by His voice, death can’t speak again
This is how Love wins

Did you see this moment from the start
That we would drink this of cup of suffering?
I wonder, did we ever meet?
Childhood games in dusty streets
For all my many sorrows and regrets
Nothing could compare to just this one
That in the presence of my King
I cannot fall upon my knees
I cannot carry You up to Your throne
You instead, will carry me back home.

This is how Love wins, every single time
Climbing high upon a tree where someone else should die
This is how Love heals, the deepest part of you
Letting Himself bleed into the middle of your wounds
This is what Love says, standing at the door
You don’t have to be who you’ve been before
Silenced by His voice, death can’t speak again
This is how Love wins

What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood
Because this is what Love say, standing at the door
You don’t have to be who you’ve been before
And silenced by His voice, death can’t speak again
This is how Love wins.

想到了嗎?那與耶穌一起走最後一程的兩人其中一人。
四福音裡分別以強盜、人、犯人描述他們。
馬太福音「那和祂同釘的強盜也是這樣的譏誚祂」。
馬可福音「那和祂同釘的人也是譏誚祂」。
路加福音裡提到的字眼是「犯人」,其中一個譏誚,另一個則是責備這譏誚的人並求主得國降臨時記念他。
約翰福音只提到有兩個人和耶穌一起釘十字架,沒提到他們有什麼互動。

之前我對這張專輯的Daniel和Esther這兩首非常喜歡
今天想說聽/看Thief是說些什麼?
很有內心戲的感觸。
但願我們都是搥胸不敢抬頭望天的稅吏或這強盜。
我們(身邊有)多少人這樣?又是誰偷竊殺害毀壞了這些人(含我們)?

2011-12-23

20111223_Hallelujah

我從不知道這首Hallelujah大合唱會讓人流淚
如此有力地宣告主耶穌基督作王掌權,豈不該從頭到尾喜樂歡暢嗎?
然而流淚的原因其實也很簡單,這影片讓我想到使徒行傳裡,門徒被稱為「那攪亂天下的」。
攪亂天下是什麼意思?也許就像在人潮擁擠的美食街裡自信地(看著眾人地)唱Hallelujah,那需要多大的勇氣呢?
雖然同伴在身邊一起唱,但,你仍舊是獨自面對眼前的人,獨自將好信息報給眼前的人。

如果是你,有勇氣站起來嗎?有勇氣讓人知道你是門徒、使徒、與這世界不同的人嗎?

唱完之後,看起來好像又回復到跟之前沒有什麼差別的美食街。但,真的沒有差別嗎?

正道,就是做對的事情。這是英雄志裡的盧雲說的。不偏於黑,不迎於白,那是一條最中間的路。走的人少,所以孤單;但一旦踏上,每一步都很自然。

主雖然以艱難給你當餅,以困苦給你當水,你的教師卻不再隱藏,你眼必看見你的教師。你或向左,或向右,你必聽見後邊有聲音說:「這是正路,要行在其間。」(以賽亞書30:20-21)


BTW, happy birthday to my brother.

20111222_Messiah

2011-12-21

20111221_(Music Inspired by) the Story

Good - Adam & Eve
Must each tomorrow hold such brokenness untold?
Can't imagine how YOU could see all of me and say it's good.

No Compromise - Daniel
Can't be bought or sold
I am rich in YOU
Kingdoms crumble, rulers fall, my God, YOU will out rule them all.

Born for This - Esther
Sometimes you gotta go, uninvited.
Sometimes you gotta speak when you don't have the floor.
Sometimes you gotta move, when everybody else says you should stay.
No way, no, not today.
You gotta ask, if you want an answer.
Sometimes you gotta stand apart from the crowd long before your heart could run the risk.
You were born for this.