Call My Name

Music has such an impact in life and in so many ways. For me music is more than simply notes on a page or chords for guitar, for me music is an expression of feeling that speaks more powerfully than words alone. Perhaps more important than music alone is music with lyrics that call us back to our Heavenly Father. Third Day has a song titled "Call My Name". It's lyrics and chorus go something like this:

When you feel like you're alone in your sadness
It seems like no one else in this whole world cares
And you want to get away from the madness
You just call My name and I'll be there
You just call My name and I'll be there

The pain inside
Has erased your hope for love
Soon you will find
That I'll give you all
That your heart could ever want
And so much more

Scripture gives us a passage that matches well with this song (at least as I see it). Hebrews 12:1-2 reveals a few things. It says

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

First, there are things that entangle us. Things the author calls sin. And we're told to "throw off" the sin that so easily entangles us. But then it says "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith." Whenever life has you, whether in it's sadness or madness, let's focus on Christ who for the joy set before Him endured the cross and all it's suffering because there, in relationship with Jesus God gives us more than our heart could ever want.

Click on the video below to hear the acoustic version of Third Day's Call My Name...I simply LOVE this song!