Welcome back music library...

Hello, iTunes music library...nice to hear you again. Specifically, Tenth Avenue North. It's been a few weeks...

Never have I encountered a whole CD that has captured my attention for so long. I am a sporadic song listener--usually cannot listen to a whole song without changing it. Yet when it comes to "Over and Underneath" by Tenth Avenue North... I can't get enough. For 3 reasons.

1. Truth. 10th Ave's lyrics are first and foremost Bible-saturated and Christ-centered. There is nothing better.

"Look at these hands and my side//They swallowed the grave on that night//When I drank the world's sin//So I could carry you in//And give you life//I want to give you life"
(By Your Side)

2. Spirit. The Bible tells us to worship in Spirit and in Truth. So not only in truth...but also in spirit... with emotion, with passion, with delight, with joy. The lyrics are so honest... expressing fears, failures, and dependence on Jesus Christ. Not with stiff, emotionless law or words...but sincere emotion-packed charismatic spirit...

"One tear in the dropping rain//One voice in the sea of pain//Could the maker of the stars//Hear the sound of my breakin' heart? //One light, that's all I am//Right now I can barely stand//If You're everything You say You are//Won't You come close and hold my heart"
(Hold My Heart)

3. Good music. These guys are actually talented... and their songs are enjoyable to listen to. Again, and again, and again!

We have a mind that comprehends words so that we might know the Truth. We have emotions so that we might delight in things--and the ultimate, all-satisfying delight is knowing God through Jesus Christ. This CD is breaking me down, building me up, and spurring me to know...to really know my Lord...and encouraging me to take delight in seeing others come to see and savour Christ for the first time as He ought to be valued.

"Well you've been a mistress, my wife//Chasing lovers it won't satisfy//Won't you let me make you my bride//You will drink of my lips //And you'll taste new life
"Cause you're my beloved//Lover I'm yours//Death shall not part us//It's you I died for
For better or worse//Forever we'll be//Our Love it unites us//and it binds you to me"
(Beloved)

God keeps his covenants. He made a covenant through His son's blood...and no power is able to divorce Christ from His bride--the Church. Not because of our power, but His power...that Christ may receive all the glory because He, who was without sin, became Sin for His sheep. God is good!

Moral of the post, enjoy 10th Ave because through their music...we can worship God in spirit and in Truth...for His glory because of the Lamb who was slain.