Title of song: Smiling Down
Link to song: http://search.playlist.com/tracks/smiling%2520down%2520pillar
Lyrics to song: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pillar/smilingdown.html
Message title: "God is Watching"
All right...I've been meaning to write this for quite awhile now, but never got around to it. The song is from Pillar's latest album, "For The Love Of The Game", and it's one of my favorite songs by them. Today it really hit me hard...much harder than I would ever anticipate. Let me start with a small story of what happened today. I went to play volleyball at a local church as I do every Monday night, because I love volleyball and the people there are pretty cool. But tonight I was very frustrated. First of all I wasn't playing well, and neither was anyone else for that matter. Most of the time everyone was just goofing off on the court, when we should be playing. Yeah, I know it's just a game, but the whole reason I'm there is actually to play, not watch other people make morons of themselves. And everyone always brings like, their 20 kids each (the people I play with are adults from the church), so the whole time it's like a nursery and the kids were being unusually rambunctious tonight. Overall, not a good night, and I left extremely frustrated.
So I got to my car and turned on my Pillar CD like I always do, and the first song that came on was Smiling Down. It relaxed me, and I really payed attention to the words this time. The chorus really struck me: "Next time that you feel like crying, next time you don't feel like trying, just remember I'll be right there smiling down on you." Slowly tears started to swell to my eyes as I realized what this meant. But I'm a MAN! MEN DON'T CRY!!! Yeah, right. Not when God has something to say.
I realized that in my frustration, I was sinning. I was angry at all the people from volleyball....all the Christian people there. Now, I'm a Christian, I always have God on my mind and struggle to answer the question "What would Jesus do?" in all situations. In my realization of my sin, of course I felt guilty, but take a look at the lyrics again. "Just remember I'll be right there smiling down on you." Meditate on that for a little bit. I think that when we sin, we get scared a little bit, because then we get the picture that God is glaring at us and is ready to chastise us because we broke His law. Not so. God is SMILING! He loves us! That was the greatest comfort of all for me...knowing that God is smiling and saying "Hey, it's ok. Here, come into my arms. You're safe here." When I found a parking space at a Giant, I listened to the song again, but this time I really noticed my seat belt. Of course I always had it on, but it felt....different. It actually felt like Jesus was hugging me...and it felt great! "Hey Chris....I know you feel bad. I know you sinned. But here, let me hold you, I'll take care of you." Is there anything greater? Not a thing. So here's the bottom line: we all sin. We're imperfect humans, and we can do nothing to save ourselves. But when we sin, God the Father is not looking down with a leather whip in his hand and a cold glare on his face. Rather, He has Jesus in His right hand, and a smile on His face. "Come to me, I'll take care of you. You are forgiven." Nothing is greater. Praise be to God.
Expect more of these notes...I want do to one for each song on Pillar's latest album. Anticipate them being very powerful; hopefully as powerful as I think this one is.
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