In the Christian version of Switchfoot's Dare You To Move video, found on the double-sided disk, the hero runs through the streets of a dark city. Storm clouds loom overhead. As he goes he begins to encounter other people running towards him, at first just a few, then more and more until he's battling a tide of people running the opposite direction.
He stumbles, nearly falls as he's knocked about like a pinball. In the end He finally breaks through the crowd, finally fights upstream and reaches the goal, the rain stops, the clouds break and he is surrounded by beautiful sunlight.
As Christ-followers it's hard. We have to struggle to make it against the flow of what everyone wants us to do. Often times it's tempting to turn and just follow the flow. But Jesus never gave up.
So when the burdens of life begin to pull at you, when your name is attached for your beliefs, when it might look easier to just go with the flow, remember, Jesus has worn those shoes. He's climbed that hill. He's gone through everything that you have...
Dare You To Move
Switchfoot
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
1 comment:
this is soo true when i came to college...its a whole new experience...temptation around every corner..and it would be so easy to just turn and run with the flow of people ...but we have to find that something to drive us against them...GOD
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