Cripple Me- Elenowen

March 13, 2011


It's been a lazy Sunday, especially with all the daylight that we are saving. I am really missing Florida, but the weather was wonderful today. I'm struggling a little with my lenten promises, but hey, they're not supposed to be a piece of cake. The song today has something that has really been on my heart. Not entirely sure if the band is Christian, but everything that is good is God. So a truth that is honest and good is completely applicable to the most honest and good God.

la canción: Cripple Me 

I have acquired a massive amount of new music the past couple days (admittedly some in not the most legal of ways), but regardless it has made me realize how big a part it plays in my life. I think that there are so many times that songs say things so much better than I ever could. They embrace feelings and memories. They are powerful enough for us to link times in our lives to them, some we hold on to and others we would give anything to forget. 

This song is so great. First of all Elenowen is a super talented band. So chill. "Cripple Me" is kind of a prayer, more so now than it has been in the past. I've been talking a lot about trying to stay put in my life today. And what is a more permanent state of staying put than not having the ability to move. And more importantly, someone I don't want to move from. I mean just take my struggles about Lent, there are small things that can get me to willingly leave God's side. Paul says it a lot in his writings that he is a slave, a prisoner to Christ. I love God, whole heartedly, but some days I think it would be so much easier if He just held me there, keeping me fixed on Him. 

The first verse is telling of where I am, and where He will always be...here for me.

"I see you waiting, but I'm not ready To take that first step towards home 

So please be patient, God knows I'm trying
But these good intentions are not enough

You've pulled back your veil, laid it all on the line
But I've turned my back and covered my eyes

Please, please, please, please cripple me
So I cannot keep running away
Away from you"

Psalm: Trois

I'm taking a break from The Message version today. I use Biblegateway.com and it is incredibly helpful in looking at His Words in different ways. And for Psalm Three, I'm going with the New Living Translation. David is accredited with writing a majority of the Psalms, and three is no different. The gist of the Psalm is that David has a lot of enemies, something that seems to be a common theme for this cat. But the greater part of this Scripture is that he feels safe and confident in God, which is also something that he tends to write about. I think that hearing that God is bigger than any enemy, imaginable or unimaginable, is an idea we all could get drummed into our heads a little more. Maybe then we could live it out. Do I feel safe, because I should. He's got me. Jesus and the whole dying for our sins wasn't a last ditch effort, some spur of the moment decision. He knew that when He created the world, there would be a Savior, and that Savior has willed me to live. 

I think the greatest thing about writing this all out is it lets me tie other scripture to it. Matthew 6:26 "There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds." Careless in the care of God. So sleep well, "Lay down and sleep, wake up in safety, for the Lord is watching over you." (Psalm 3:5 Annie-Grace adapted)

He loves me. He loves you. He saved me. He saved you. We're never far from His reach.

Isaiah 49:16

Cripple Me