This is one of those songs where the hearer truly determines the meaning. This song is vivid enough to give you a framework where you can paint the picture.
So I have decided that I will express what this song means to me.
I have had so many dreams that have been crushed, and many times I have come to points where I have needed to ask: What could possibly make this life worth living? How can I keep going? While searching for answers I would be giving life another shot. Searching for something to hold on to.
As I keep on this journey running towards God and towards the dreams he has given me, there are times where I look around and truly wonder how I got here. Knowing that though I have some of the answers I haven't even scratched the surface in regard to knowledge of the truth out there.
Many people at this point in my life would pause to say that I have an air of arrogance because I am willing to challenge their opinions. But I ask you this: How are you going to find truth if you aren't willing to search for it? Aren't willing to test what you know with fire? Is the foundation and hope you stand on one that will with stand all the storms of life, or is it going to cause you to crumble and break?
I will be spending the rest of my life upgrading my mental model of reality. I will never stop searching for answers, and I will never stop trying to understand.
The song reminds me of life while we are between Egypt and the Promised land - that is, for us who have been freed from slavery to sin and *before* we reach complete joy and love, it's like wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.
ReplyDeleteBut we gotta keep searching for more, otherwise we will think that the desert is as good as it gets, and we'll settle down there. We gotta search for more and better even if it means rejecting old ideas as foolish.