The other day in Psychology, we were talking about something, though I honestly can't remember what it was. In any case, the teacher brought up at video. It is a skit done by Lifehouse performed to their song "Everything".
I really would love for you to watch the video. It honestly brought a lot of thought to my head. It made me think of many different things at once, such as
1.Probably should have been the first thing that I noticed, but in the beginning of the cycle, she is dancing with Jesus, and she willingly leaves Him to go dance with this other person. I am assuming he is playing the role of a boyfriend that is leading her down a bad path. She started the sin cycle, and kept it going. Sin came into her life. Just like every other human being that wasn't Jesus. Sin entered somewhere, and won't stop. She is in need. She left God, and there was a rift there. If you watch "God" in the skit, you can see that when she goes and dances with this other person, that He gets jealous, and His heart actually breaks. Sin causes God's heart to break, because of His great love for us. Sin is a problem, and problems need solutions.
2. When the woman came to the end of herself, and nothing she had tried worked, she started to run back to God. The problem was that she couldn't get there, because of all her struggles. Showing that when we are working alone, we can't beat our own struggles. We aren't able to beat our sin by our own power. It is too strong. It just goes to show that John 15:5 is true: "Apart from Me, you can do nothing". A very key factor in the Christian faith. That we don't save us, Jesus does. Even when she tries her hardest against those things she struggles with, she can't win.
3. Building off the last point, Jesus's death on the cross and resurrection from the dead was enough to beat the sin that the woman had been living in. Even after Jesus died, and was resurrected, He was there, and she was trying to beat the sin by herself, and she was failing miserably. At the end of the struggle, Jesus interceded and battled the sin for her. The burden lifted off her shoulders, and cast onto his. At that moment, she was free from the sin, and Jesus took it. Then Jesus beat it. Defeating the alcohol, the money, and the other things that she was filling her life with, and taking her back to where she belonged. Jesus is stronger than our sin, and that is another key factor in the Christian faith. We might not be strong enough, but Jesus is. Jesus took our struggles and beat them with His resurrection.
4. If you watch right after the woman starts to run back to Jesus, struggling with all the things that she had been dealing with, Jesus is standing there, trying to pull her back. I think this symbolizes the fact that God is actively searching, and trying to get His children back to Him. He isn't just idly sitting there, hoping they will return. He was actively looking. He is trying to pull them back, even from all the things that they've done. It doesn't matter to God that they have sinned, because He has sent His Son to take the sins of all, and destroy them. He is just looking to win back the hearts of those who are not with Him. He isn't like any other religions god or gods, in which they just idly sit there and don't try to get their followers to come to them. God is pursuing us with all His heart. He desperately wants us back. Which is another key point to the Christian faith
5. Another song.. The song Noise by Colton Dixon came to my mind. In the video, the woman is too distracted by everything the other characters are having her do to hear or see God screaming for her.The chorus to that song goes
"Cause everything is noise. Everything is screaming out
Everything has come alive, oh but I'm getting lost in the sound
I need to hear your voice. Reminding me that at the end of the day
No matter what goes down I'll be okay, even through the noise"
This is obviously something that is simple to think about. All the things in our life that don't point us to God, distract our views. Therefore, they are the "Noise" that the song talks about.
Number 5 is just a random thing I noticed, but it's another thing to think about.
Most of these points are really just things that I have noticed are very fundamental truths. Most of these things any Christian knows, but doesn't really think about. Now that I have taken some time to think about it, I have realized that I need Christ more and more everyday because I can't do it alone. It's not a "One and done" type deal. We need Jesus every day, more and more than we can ever really know. I don't wanna be a lukewarm person, so I need to go back to the basics and see what Jesus really did for me, because I couldn't do it myself.
I'm thankful that I saw this video, and I hope that it is as inspiring to you guys as it was to me!
Thanks!
TJ
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