Music that Matters: The Change

This week's song is a challenge. Not only is it a country song (not a big fan) but it isn't a "traditional" Christian song. It does however resonate with today's Gospel in a sense.

The Gospels this week have been centered on ways Jesus was slowly beginning to "change" the world through his miracles. His healing touch certainly changed those whom he healed (leper, blind man). They were changed so much that they couldn't hold it in as Jesus requested and told everyone they knew.

Similarly, we need to be equally as excited when Jesus heals us spiritually. Garth says that what he does is so the the world will know it isn't going to change him. I say Amen to that! Ours is a constant struggle in this secular world to keep it from changing us.

Listen to it here.

The Change
by Garth Brooks
Album - Fresh Horses

One hand
Reaches out
And pulls a lost soul from harm
While a thousand more go unspoken for
They say what good have you done
By saving just this one
It's like whispering a prayer
In the fury of a storm

And I hear them saying you'll never change things
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world will know
That it will not change me

This heart Still believes
That love and mercy still exist
While all the hatred rage and so many say
That love is all but pointless in madness such as this
It's like trying to stop a fire
With the moisture from a kiss

And I hear them saying you'll never change things
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world will know
That it will not change me

As long as one heart still holds on
Then hope is never really gone

I hear them saying you'll never change things
And no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world we know
Never changes me

What I do is so
This world will know
That it will not change me

Have a great day!