Far, Far Away

I've been having laptop troubles lately and I may not be able to post for a while. But I listened to this song today and wanted to share the lyrics. It had been a while since I heard it and I had forgotten how it effects me. If you go to the above link you can hear the song.

"Far, Far Away" by Five Iron Frenzy

Staring at the shoreline
wishing for some hope
the weight of empty fishing
nets is more than twisted rope
And underneath stern faces
they wait with baited breath
with broken hearts from hoping
while casting out their nets
See the figure on the shore
He speaks His words like plain men sing
His hands they still have holes in them
glory to the King

chorus
Can you hear the bells are ringing far, far, away?
Can you hear the voices singing far, far, away?

And Peter was a liar
a traitor just like me
and Judas was a hypocrite
and Paul a Pharisee
When truth can be so distant
and hope evades our reach
Peter swam across the water
and found it on the beach

Isn't that an amazing story? I love the way they phrase it. "He speaks his words like plain men sing". Doesn't that just capture it perfectly? When people ask Jesus a question and he just blows their presuppositions out of the water. They ask 'Is it this, or this' and he answers 'yes' or sometimes 'neither.' It's as if he's focused on something farther away from their vision and all of their petty doctrinal concerns are so close that they're blurry.

But at the same time he's right there with us. "When truth can be so distant and hope evades our reach. Peter swam across the water and found it on the beach." He's right there - 2,000 years ago walking around with fishermen. And right now in our midst through the Holy Spirit and the Church (The Body of Christ). Isn't it amazing that this man that preached to the rejected people on the outskirts of the Roman Empire led to the church bells that ring amongst us today? I know those churchbells sometimes seem distant from the original intent of Jesus. And we as a church do depart from his will on a regular basis. But He's still IN us. He's still working out the salvation of the world through this church. He could have amped up the heavenly loudspeaker and broadcast the TRUTH to the world. But we wants to involve us in his plan. We're plan A (by the grace of God), and there is no plan B.

In Christ (literally),

Jeff