While my iPod was running through some background music at work yesterday, my ears picked up on a little gem I didn't know I had. And it (gasp!) made me cry like a 14-year-old girl watching the last episode of Gilmore Girls.

Once in a while, I run across art that moves me to tears. In it's simplicity, it's profound and life-changing. I know that song lyrics make horrible poetry. And I also know that, by themselves, they are a terrible representation of the whole of an art project like a song–they are dry, hollow, and lifeless usually. Nevertheless, if you aren't familiar with The Almost or their latest album….shame on you. Their vocals are haunting and will linger in your soul long after you've moved on. Maybe the lyrics to this amazingly simple song will mean something to you and you'll check it out. 

Hello, I swear I won't be too long
Hello, I promise I'll be real strong
Wait up, I just wanna tell you
Hold up, why are you still here?

I've been dirtier than you wanna know
I've left earlier than you'll ever know

Why do, you wanna be all listenin' to me?
Why do, you spread your arms and tell me I'm free?!?!
Why do, you wanna be in my life
In my life

I've been dirtier than you wanna know
I've left earlier than you'll ever know

Jesus, Jesus

There's something about your name

Master, Saviour, Jesus

I've been dirtier than you wanna know

I've left earlier than you'll ever know

Jesus, Jesus

 

How awesome and profound. "Hey, Jesus. Just FYI….I've been dirtier than you probably really want to know. And I'm not sure I understand why you're spreading your arms out like that…but there's something about your Name that draws me a little closer…" How many times have I felt that way! It's not my exposed sin that keeps me from God, but the hidden sin in my life (that's not really hidden from God anyway…) that is my struggle. After all the years of trying to follow Him, be like Him, understand Him, it keeps occurring to me that I just don't have as much of a clue as I like to think. And in my smug, religious piety, He draws me even closer. And as I'm drawn in, I begin to realize how much I still don't know about Him. 

Admittedly, I like to think I understand a lot about God. I enjoy a lot of the current conversations people deem 'important' in our culture today. Theological, homiletical, hermeneutical, exegetical, missional, relevant, reformed, liberal, conservative, complementarian, egalitarian, open source, predestined, ad nauseum.

Big freakin' deal.  He loves me…dirty and all. Now that's something worth talking about.