Thoughts From Max

This song, by Barlow Girl, speaks about a million voices getting stronger till they remeber we were here. I wonder what this song is saying about this current generation. See, the song was originaly written about the holocaust, about how the world will remember the people that were killed and how we will never forget. But I think there is also the meaning behind this song that defines our current generation of teens, me included. We are here. And we must be used to make a difference. What can we do? What are we doing? Are we doing enough?

What are we going to be remembered for? For the things we’ve done to change the world, or the things we’ve done to just sit in our chairs and have nothing to do with the world except the chouch and the TV screen. All over there are many people that have things going on to try and bring change, to try and be remembered. But is it enough to change how the world is. Is it enough to help something that doesn’t really want to be helped. How can we save peopel that have their fingers in their ears?

I don’t know. Maybe you guys have some thoughts.

Max.

P.s: here’s the song…

Tell me who’d have thought that we would be so controversial
And stand against the normal
Are we too outspoken, loud, and messing up the comfortable?
Well we’ve been messed up alsoBut how can we be silent
When a fire burns inside us
‘Cause we’re a million strong and getting stronger still
They’ll remember we were here
With a million voices breaking silence till
They’ll remember we were here

We were made to start the riot, take on the impossible
And we will stay the giants
We are done with fake religion fighting now to find the movement
Won’t stop till we find it

But how can we be silent
When a fire burns inside us
‘Cause we’re a million strong and getting stronger still
They’ll remember we were here
With a million voices breaking silence till
They’ll remember we were here
We’re a million strong and getting stronger still
They’ll remember we were here
With a million voices breaking silence till
They’ll remember we were here

This last week a lot of us went to youth camp, I think all in all there were about 200 kids there, plus all the adults that took time from work and their families to spend the week with us. It was a great week, full of awesome worship, fun games, and learning more about God and his Love for us. Although the food wasn’t all that great, it was still an awesome week.

One thing that really stuck out to me was what God wants from us. He doesn’t want a religion, we wants love. It even says that in the bible, I journaled on that the other day, I believe that it was in the book of Hosea chapter 6(I think that’s how you spell it, not sure though). It said, “I want more than mere religion, I want constant love. I want to know you.” This really stuck out to me. This whole week at camp we talked about how God doesn’t want us to do things just because others are doing them which is what religion is to me, going through the motions, but he wants us to have the love behind the actions, it’s about what our motives are.

Yesterday, we had youth worship practice. It was the first time that I had led the team, and it was really really stressful for me. More than I thought it would be. I couldn’t get my voice to do the things that I needed it to do for some of the songs, I couldn’t get my ideas out of my head and into words, all in all it didn’t flow well, and I had a splitting headache by the end of the afternoon. When I cam home and I journaled, that verse stuck out to me. He wants more than motions. It wasn’t about that fact that I wasn’t doing well, it was about God. Even though we weren’t leading the others into worship. It was still worship of God. Sometimes I think we forget about what we are doing. We forget who we are doing things for. And we forget that God just wants love.

I know that I sometimes have that little voice in the back of my head saying that I can’t do it. Or I won’t be good enough. But through God, I can do it. He knows what were doing is for him, and he knows that it’s all for love of him and others. All of us up there on that worship team get in the mind set of it being a performance… but it’s not! That is what I learned yesterday, or I re-learned it. I know that we all have our expectations of how things are supposed to go, how they are supposed to be perfect, and have them just go all nice. But that is not how life works. Or it’s not how it works with out God. I think that with God, even if things are going so horribly wrong and awful, they are going so beautifully correct. He doesn’t care if we screw up, he forgives us, and he has grace and mercy.

I don’t know if any of that made sense to anyone that read this… I hope it did.

Max