REDEMPTION

Snippet

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.” ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

Scripture

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans 8:22-25 NIV

Song

Redemption by Red Light King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3mY4kJwiSI

Just like a needle in a haystack

Another day we run with the wolf pack

Everybody want a piece when you know how

You don’t want to be on this side of know how

Or when you see this side of the horizon fading

And you see all the bylines changing

When your feet pulls up in the flatland faiting

You don’t wan’t to leave them waiting

Cause they woke you up They’ll watch you drown

They’ve got us picked for a life in the ground

They build the walls that also holds the sharks in

They set us torchings and they are the ones who make it dark

When this life comes to break us and beat us down

They send the beast just to push us around

We maintain we are not in the grave

They may have our number but we still have something to say

Chorus

Redemption

Ooh oh

Ooh oh

Redemption

Ooh oh

Ooh oh

Into all that will make it right

You don’t want to bring  a gun to a knife fight

You don’t want to be the life with the with the ride down

You don’t want to be in the dark now

When the chains not far from breakin

And the hand that feed is takin

Cause it feels backed up cause you got locked up in sickness

Cause your lying on the pavement

Cause they woke you up They’ll watch you drown

They’ve got us picked for a life in the ground

They build the walls that also holds the sharks in

They set us torchings and they are the ones who make it dark

When this life comes to break us and beat us down

They send the beast just to push us around

We maintain we are not in the grave

They may have our number but we still have something to say

Chorus

Redemption

Ooh oh

Ooh oh

Redemption

Ooh oh

Ooh oh

Theyr’e burnin sweat you know theyr’e right

They took what you had, now go take it back

The burning sweat you know aint right

They took what you had, now go take it back

When this life comes to break us and beat us down

They send the beast just to push us around

We may jest with one foot in the grave

This live aint over yet we still have something to say

Redemption

Ooh oh

Ooh oh

They try to break and beat us down

Redemption

Ooh oh

Ooh oh

We still have something to say

Ooh oh

Ooh oh

Redemption

Sentence Prayer

Look kindly on our world, our God,

As we suffer and struggle with one another.

Look kindly on your church,

Driven by the same necessity;

And may the light we have seen in Jesus

Illuminate and brighten all the world.  Amen

(New Zealand Prayer Book Pg 125)