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NOT COOL!!!  How are we supposed to get tabs for songs in praise and worship band now?  lol...  CLICK THE LINK!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm

So, I'm pretty much tired of my xanga site about now.  I never have any time, nor the will power to sit down and write something for it.  Maybe one of these days I will post something worth reading again.  Until then, enjoy posting random comments on here, and make it a chat room or something.  Have fun.  It's all yours (the people's).

In Christ Alone, Big Al-

The song below originally sounds like a sad sng about a man who is extremely weak in his faith.  I originally thought it was very naive and stupid of the writer to expose these thoughts and doubts to the public.  After hearing it and reading the words over and over, I began to realize that the author is not a mere doubter; rather, he is a representation of you and I.  So often we do what is written about in this song.  We ask God to break our hearts, or wake us up with a big slap in the face, but do we really long for that?  Do we really desire that slap in the face?  Are those just words that we are speaking with our lips, or are they heart-felt?  Often times I pray for God to break me, and humble me so that I can be used most effectively, but then I stop and think about how hard and painful that would be, and I know that I don't REALLY want that to happen.  I only want what follows the broken heart.  I only want obedience, without the hurt and hardship that it would take.  Because of this underlying argument that I always have in my mind, I tend to think I don't have as much faith.  This song describes the simple struggles that we all go through as Christ-follwers, and mere human beings.  I don't view this song as a depressing and sad one, no.  I view this song as a redeeming one, showing the very heart of the writer, where he speaks to God, asking to be used with what faith he might have, even if it is not a lot.  This song describes me.  Note the last few lines.  Look at those carefully, and see the song turn around.

"I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourselfinto the sea,' and does not dobt in his HEART but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him."

What is my point?  My point is, that even though we may feel like Doubting Thomases, in our hearts, we believe that God has the power to do all things.  That is the faith that matters.  A mustard seed can do all that?  Imagine what a baseball could do.

"Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.  So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"  But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hans and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."  A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them.  Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"  Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger hre; see my hands.  Reach out your hand and put it into my side.  Stop doubting and believe"  Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"  Then Jesus told him, "BEcause you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."  Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.  But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Song of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."

Jesus was ok with Thomas.  He just wished that Thomas woud have believed like we have to believe today.  We are called to a higher standard.  Let's live-up to it, and believe.  God bless.

-In Christ Alone, Alex-