Trouble Is - More lyrics - go figure....


Okay I've finally said "I GIVE!". I guess this will be a continuation of lyrical and musical dissection as this seems to be the way God is able to really penetrate my stubborn heart these days. But I'm so glad He IS! This is another song from Jars of Clay "Who We Are Instead" - the song the album title comes from in fact.

My wings don't sail me to the sky
On my own these wings won't fly
Jesus told me so
Still I'm not so sure that I know

Can't find no rest for my soul
Can't find no rest on my own
Jesus told me so
Still I'm not so sure that I know

Man, the trouble is
We don't know who we are instead

I'll keep runnin' the other way
My heart ain't built to stay
My heart ain't built to stay
And the world just ain't that way

My heart ain't built to stay
My heart ain't built to stay
Jesus told me so


I have a love/hate relationship with this song because of the raw truth it contains. If we (I) only understood our (my) TRUE identity instead of clinging to the dead thing that died on the cross with Christ we'd (I'd) sail right along! And even though Jesus reminds me that I'm going to fail - that I'm nothing without Him in me, again and again I find myself fighting my own battles and then wondering why I falter. HEEELLLOOOO!!!! It's all summed up in those two lines "Jesus told me so. Still I'm not so sure that I know." Head knowledge I have. Heart transference - that's another story all together. He tells me - I say "okay - got it!" and the next thing I know I'm begging for Him to lift me up out of the dirt again because somehow I got to this place all on my own but don't have the ability to get out. And THAT IS the point! And it's all okay because of His grace that He never forgets we need. Thank goodness for a God who knows me so much better than I know myself - who is patient, long-suffering, kind, gentle and knows far better than I what I really need!