4/02/2007 06:08:00 PM

"Why Don't You & I"
by Rob Thomas & Santana

Since the moment I spotted you,
Like walking round with little wings on my shoes
My stomach's filled with the butterflies... ooo and it's alright
Bouncing round from cloud to cloud
I got the feeling like I'm never going to come down
If I said I didn't like it then you know I'd lied

[Pre-Chorus:]
Everytime I try to talk to you
I get tongue-tied
Turns out that everything I say to you
Comes out wrong and never comes out right

[Chorus:]
So I'll say 'why don't you and I get together and take on the world
and be together forever
Heads we will and tails we'll try again'
So I say 'why don't you and I hold each other and fly to the moon
and straight on to heaven
Cause without you they're never going to let me in'

When's this fever going to break?
I think I've handled more than any man can take
I'm like a love-sick puppy chasing you around
ooo and it's alright
Bouncing round from cloud to cloud
I got the feeling like I'm never going to come down
If said I didn't like it then you know I'd lied

[Pre Chorus - repeat]
[Chorus - repeat]

And slowly I begin to realize this is never gonna end
Right about the same time you walk by
And I say 'Oh here we go again, oh'
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Recently, this has been my newest favorite song, not that it's new or anything, but I just love the beat and feel-good sound about it. Listening to it over and over again, I've come to decipher the lyrics being sung.

Many people would view this as a love song between 2 people. I thought it was too. Until the Holy Spirit spoke and reminded me that this should be the way I should feel about Jesus.

As in stanza 1, doesnt Jesus lift our burdens, lightening our steps in the process?
As in the pre-chorus, isnt falling in love with God similar to (or even better) than falling in love with someone of the opposite sex, causing us to want to be with Him all the time?
As in the chorus, dont we need to accept Jesus into our hearts before we can enter the kingdom of heaven?

Wow.

Yesterday, I attended service as if it was part of my weekly schedule. A time to forget about all my commitments and responsibilties for 2 hours, to socialize with my spiritual family and have some fun. I had little expectations.

But God, being God, blessed me with more than I could ask for, more than I could imagine. Now what did He say?

"Charissa, I am always with you. You are never alone. I can understand everything that you're going through. Don't worry, I will never leave you."

Me, being silly old me, questioned Him. "Are you sure Jesus?? But you didnt have projects and the internet and coursework when you were here on earth right??"

Jesus: "No I didnt but I went through every feeling and testing you're experiencing, but a hundred times more.. I have gone through moments of uncertainty, have had to face the responsibility of taking all the sins of the world upon myself and dying on the cross so that you might be free! So I can understand."

Me: "Oops!"

When I heard that, I could do little but stand in awe and receive His love. I was reminded once again of all that Jesus did for me, for us. His death on the cross brought us freedom and life. And when I think of that, eveyrthing comes into perspective and all my commitments and worries seem so minor.

I was reminded to focus on the eternal.

Lord, thank You for Your abundant love which propelled You to send Your Son to die on the cross that we might have life. You are so good! I pray that this will be a week where people will get to see all that You've done for us, and come to know You. Reveal to them the concept of eternity. Amen.

+ AMEN

:charissa sarah seah
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