Lately, I've been on this Caedmon's Call kick... and I came across this song, "I will sing"... It drives me crazy that the only version I have is joined with "Carry On", a song that i have very low tolerance for... Anyway, here it goes:
"I will sing for the meek
those who pray with their very lives for peace
though they're in chains for a higher call
their mourning will change when the nations fall
In spirit poor
and mercy rich
they hunger for Your righteousness
their hearts refined by the purity
Lord let me shine for them
Lord let me sing"
i been thinking some about this idea of "praying with our very lives for peace"...
Are we really willing to move from "praying with our lips for peace", to "praying with our very lives for peace"? Often this is seen as being willing to lay down our lives for the myth of redemptive violence in war, or under conditions of being martyred for our faith, but praying with our lives for peace can take on so many forms...
Are we willing to make the sacrifices of time, energy, money, social status, favor, esteem, etc.... to give our lives to daily acts of peace-making?
The chance to live-for and participate-in the furthering of the Kingdom of God is the greatest honor of our pathetic lives, but it also involves a painful death... the loss of respect and dignity by those we love and trust, the loss of our morality in the eyes of the American church, the loss of even our own confidence as we question, "am i even doing the right thing?"... but it isn't a death for naught... it is the trading of death for life... "to pray with our very lives for peace..."
we will lose much, but God's creation will gain much more...
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