Fire and Rain

This song by Mat Kearney has been running through my heart recently, and I am glad I have this thing to put down just why it has.

In the chorus to this song Mat says "Do you ever think about me? Do you ever call my name?" He seems to be talking about a girl. I don't know if that was his original intentions, but I think he may have been speaking of God. Or maybe, he's speaking in the perspective of God. I don't know, I'd have to ask him, and obviously, given my inability to see the man, I don't think that's going to happen soon.

Anyway, I think that he's talking from God's view. Because God is always thinking of us, the things that are good for us, and what's not good for us. Another reason I think he's speaking in this way is because in the song he says "Hey, hey! They don't know you like I do." I mean, no one knows us like He does. God knows us more than we even know ourselves.

The reason that this song has been on my heart recently though is the fact that I've been doing a lot of thinking about Christ. I mean, I just have been looking in the past year, because in a short week, it will have been exactly a year from when I handed Him my whole life. I think that the second line says a lot "I heard you would come around" Well, He knew from the start that a year ago I was going to give my life to Him, and I think that it's amazing how much I have grown in Him since that night. I mean, I used to only know the books that we read out of at that very moment. I didn't now any more than I was hearing that day, and now I'm able to name them almost 100% in order. Verses run through my head in almost every situation I get into. That was not the case a year ago. The only verse I knew was John 3:16. Heck, I didn't even know it, I just knew it was a popular one.

Another thing is, I have noticed that every single week, something else has been placed into my heart. I know this is God's work, because it's always got something to do with something we've studied in church, or campaigners, or Fellowship. Whatever the case being, I think it's a great blessing that He's done this. The biggest thing that's on my heart right now is that I need to learn what I do before I can hope to teach it. That's the main thing on my heart at this very moment.

Getting back to the song, in the chorus, he says, "Ask me now, I'll give you the reasons, my love, will not fade". I don't think I need to go too far into this, but God's love is never ending. In this case, never fading. I don't understand why people constantly run away from Christ, because of earthly things. Christ's love won't fade, and nothing that the people of this earth do, even the ones that know Christ are only small showings of the love that He really can give to you. I was told by my brother the other day that the reason he "will never become Christian" is because while he was in New Jersey with my mom, and grandmom, they went to church and the pastor was talking about Wiccans, and how he should have one of them come up and speak or whatever, and someone yells out "That's bulls***." Well, the only thing I can really say to that is that isn't what Christ is about. Christ isn't going to say that. I really hope that if that man knows Christ, that he feels the conviction from it. That's just not right.  I also pray that my brother would see that what the people do on Earth is not what Christ has already done for us. I mean, He died for us, and came back. We can't honestly say anyone else has done that for us. No one can.

I feel as if I got a little off topic, but I don't know.

Love you guys