When the Music fades - Is it all about You

When the Music fades  -  Is it all about You Jesus

As I said in my last blog it is very difficult to see your own flawed nature without the help of others.   It is though hard to find anyone who will make constructive criticism or not take offense if you do not readily agree with what they are saying.    Even more so if you ask how what they are saying fits in with scripture.    A typical example is my disagreement with the Matt Redman’s song “When the music fades” or The heart of Worship.   In particular,   the part which goes.

I’m coming back to the heart of worship. 

 And it’s all about You all about You Jesus

I’m sorry Lord for the things I have made it

And it’s all about You all about You Jesus

What is it that I have made it?     Maybe in there is the clue as it could be the reason I no longer fit in the church of to-day.    Why,  as the lady said  “I have no spiritual connectivity”  whatever that means.    More importantly I find it hard to see that it is “all about You all about You Jesus”.      The God who reigns in heaven,  surrounded by billions upon billions of angels worshiped day and night.    Night and day or at least would be if there was night there.    Read Revelations.    Is it all about worship.    “And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,  the twenty- four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying….” Rev 4 9:11 (ESV),  Try not bowing down and worshiping whenever you encounter the Living God or even just hear someone praise Him.  The God who lives in heaven,   in a luxury and splendor John found difficult to describe left all that.   For me.    Born in a messy,  smelly stable,  full of cattle,  sheep and donkeys.    Not a patch on the sweet,  sentimental and cute manager we portray every Christmas.   Fleeing on one of those donkeys for his life within weeks of being born.    Parents struggling to make ends meet and people questioning his parentage.    30 years of hard graft as a carpenter’s son before dying the most excruciating death after being flogged almost to death before being n nailed to a cross.   He did it for Him ?    It was all about Him.     Is it heresy  to say “Rubbish.    It is not all about Him but it was all about me….and you…..and you…and you.”     He did it for me.    Isn't that the message of the gospel   “He did all this for me”   He did it so that I could live.     I could have life and more abundantly that I could ever imagine.   He did it so in due course I could stand in Heaven with multitudes upon multitudes shouting  “Salvation belongs to our God" (Rev 7 v9:10 NIV).     It is not “all  about You Jesus”  It is about me.    It is all about us and the command Jesus gave all His disciples,  all His followers to “Take up your cross and follow Him”   To do like He did.    To die for others as He did.   That is the worship He wants from us on earth.     Isn’t that what Matt Redman meant,   What he was looking for?

When the music fades,  all is stripped away (the singing,  the worship?)

 And I simple come

Longing just to bring something that’s of worth

That will bless Your heart

I will bring You more than a song

For a song in itself

Is not what You have required

What is it He requires    A cross??