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Un-Made

I wonder how many other people besides me listen to a song and begin immediately to imagine and think about what the music video would be.  As the song plays I can see in my mind the different themes and camera shot angles.  Well, it happened to me again yesterday as I was driving home from work.  "The Unmaking" by Nicole Nordeman started playing on my truck radio.  There is a lot in those lyrics that we can tie to our own lives and a lot of scripture to back the lyrics up.  America,  I am confident that we will have to be "unmade" to get back to the point where we worship the creator instead of the created.  Demolition is messy and unpleasant, especially when you are not even aware of how big your creation has gotten because the building process has been so slow and gradual.  We have built walls of government welfare, church denominations, rituals, church growth, skin color, gender identities, and the like.  I am confident this has all been done to satisfy our need to make ourselves gods.  I am as guilty as anyone else. In this season of my life, I have fallen into the trap of focusing on my career, my family, and my growth.   This isn't a call for us to do anything except; READ THE BIBLE and PRAY.  Get by yourself and meditate on the Word of God.  Examine and judge your own heart according to God's standard and not the world's.  I am praying for you!

 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. John 16:33

Matthew, Chapter 6

Psalm 25


THE UNMAKING LYRICS

This is where the walls gave way
This is demolition day
All the debris, and all this dust
What is left of what once was
Sorting through what goes and what should stay

Every stone I laid for You
As if You had asked me to
A monument to Holy things
Empty talk and circling
Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do

What happens now
When all I’ve made is torn down
What happens next
When all of You, is all that’s left

This is the unmaking
The beauty in the breaking
Had to lose myself
To find out who You are
Before each beginning
There must be an ending
Sitting in the rubble
I can see the stars
This is the unmaking

The longer and the tighter that we hold
Only makes it harder to let go
But love will not stay locked inside
A steeple or a tower high
Only when we’re broken, are we whole

What happens now
When all I’ve made is torn down

This is the unmaking
The beauty in the breaking
Had to lose myself
To find out who You are
Before each beginning
There must be an ending
Sitting in the rubble
I can see the stars
This is the unmaking
This is the unmaking

I’ll gather the same stones where
Everything came crashing down
I’ll build You an altar there
On the same ground

‘Cause what stood before
Was never Yours

This is the unmaking
The beauty in the breaking
Had to lose myself
To find out who You are
Before each beginning
There must be an ending
Sitting in the rubble
I can see the stars
This is the unmaking
This is the unmaking
Oh, this is the unmaking

Had to lose myself
To find out who You are


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