Day 22

Welcome Back!

I am currently in the midst of a 30 day challenge to listen to nothing by Christian music. The idea behind the challenge is that it will help me grow in my faith, and in other things as well, but if you want to know more about why I am doing this, then I suggest that you go and read my very first blog. And if you want to know if this has had any effect on my life yet, then I suggest that you go and read any other blog of mine. Now, let’s get into today’s blog.

I told you so! These blogs are gonna be coming in hot, so I suggest that you try to keep up with me. This is the second blog today, and I am going to be talking about another song that I have been wanting to talk about. This song is a song that is taking over the Christian radio music charts, and it is easy to see why. Because this song has the Holy Spirit in it, and it is an inspiration to millions of people. The song is called “Stand in your Love” and it is by Josh Baldwin. The reason that this song is so good, is because it calls out one of the giants in our lives, the giant of fear, and let’s it know that it has no place. Another reason that the song is so popular is because it is one of those songs that seems old, even though it is new. It is one of those instant classic songs that everyone can sing along to the very first time you hear it, because you just know what the next lyrics are going to be. The song is very simple, but it is also very spiritual and deep, so it is an interesting song to spotlight.

The song starts off by saying “When darkness tries to roll over my bones, when sorrow comes to steal the joy I own, When brokenness and pain is all I know, I won’t be shaken. No I won’t be shaken.” Now, at first glance, I can understand some of you thinking that these don’t seem like to deep of lyrics. I mean, they are kind of bland, and seem like they are stereotypical words that you would hear in a song like this, but then you listen more carefully, and you see that there is a beauty interwoven in these lyrics. The beauty is that there is something coming to explain all the things unknown. So with these lyrics, they don’t tell you what is stopping him from feeling all those things, and why he won’t be shaken, but it builds up the anticipation for the main chorus, where the answers are revealed. And this is just the way that our faith works too. As Christians, we believe that there will be a second coming of Christ, and at that second coming, all will be revealed. As injustices will be made right, and every hidden dead will come into the light. So in a sense, we are all living in the first verse of this song, waiting for the main chorus to come in and give us all the answers that we have been longing for. Now, admittedly, this is probably not at all what the artist had in mind when he wrote the song. He was probably just trying to find a way to make the first verse sound good, while pointing towards the main chorus, but I believe that is was because of God that it worked out this, way. Now, let’s get into the main chorus, and see how this thing turns out.

The main chorus of this song is the thing that is going to probably stick with everyone who listens to it, and that is because it is a battle cry that we can stand by when we are struggling with the giant of fear. Now, if you don’t know what I mean by the giant of fear, then I suggest you go read Goliath Must Fall by Louie Giglio immediately, or you can just continue to read on. In his book, Louie talks about how there are giants all around us that impede and constrain our lives, and that the only way for us to defeat these giants is to let Jesus be the giant slayer that he is. So this song, and this main chorus, give us the answer to everything that built us up to this point, and that answer is simply Jesus! The lyrics for the main chorus go like this: “My fear, doesn’t stand a chance, when I stand in your love” That is all it is. It just simply repeats that line 2 or 3 more times, and then goes into the second verse. But what he is saying is that our fear does not stand a chance when we stand in the love of Christ. When we stand in God’s love, there is no giant that can stand up to him. There is nothing in our lives that can do anything to defeat the power of God and his love for us. So the next time that you hear this song, I hope that you remember that when you stand in the love of Christ, there is nothing that can come against you. For if God is for us, who can be against us? Thank you for reading, and have a blessed rest of your day.