There were three who wouldn't bow...

Hello my internet friends.

I love music. I love listening to it, attempting to play it on my freakin' sweet guitar, I love tapping my foot along to really good tunes, I love rockin' out and singing loud to the best sing alongs. Most importantly I love the words, the lyrics that move me to want to jump up and down and sing them out.

About a month ago Wendy made a youth group gig to go see Shane and Shane play in Grove City. We ended up making the trip with one student, oh well, it was fun and everyone else missed out. Anyway, so they played a song off their new cd and Wendy picked it up after the show. I put it on my phone, which also plays mp3's, and have been jammin' to it all the time.

Here are the words that get me every time:

Burn us up, burn us up, burn us up
Oh king, won't you burn us in the furnace of your desire
We give up, we give up, we give
Oh king won't you burn us in the furnace of your desire
Won't you save us from the fire

You are able to deliver, from the fire of affliction
It's the declaration of my Lord
You're not an image of gold, you're the God of old
You have made us, come and save us
We are yours
But even if you don't, even if you don't
We will burn, we will burn


This song by it self doesn't really seem like something I should be singing out, talking about wanting to burn in a fire. But it is referencing the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. They wouldn't give in to Nebechadnezzer and worship his idol, so they were thrown into the fiery furnace because they believed that their God would save them and even if he chose not to save them they would still go in the fire knowing that their God is the true God.


So when I sing those words something inside of me gets so excited to know that my God will save me, he will deliver me from my grief, my pain, my struggles. He will bring me through the fires in my life. And so I sing those words, that he will deliver me, that he has made and will save me. Then I get to the end of the song and these words are not of doubt or unbelief or sadness. I sing out "even if you don't, we will burn."

I will take on every fire, I will stand my ground and be thrown in. And I believe and trust in my God that he will save. But if something comes along and he doesn't, I will burn for his sake.

Shane and Shane "Burn us up" from the album Pages