There's one specific phrase from a song that I've heard in chapel and in church that always baffles me.
"We wrap our lives around Your life."
Besides the fact that it sounds weird--somewhat like wrapping your mind around something, but on a grander scale--I think it's biblically unsound. Why would we envelope Christ? If something were to envelope Christ, wouldn't it downplay his characteristics? Isn't it understood that the more powerful, more important things envelope other things?
Wouldn't a more accurate representation be that He encompasses us? Since it is biblical that because of His life and sacrifice, when God looks at us He sees instead that of Christ. If I'm wrong, let me know. But this phrase...
I have to stop singing the song every time I hear it and debate in my head the ways in which I think this is yet another poorly thought-out and written praise song.
2 comments:
Maybe they meant something like losing themselves in Christ, or clinging to Christ. But, I have to agree with you on my thoughts about the word choice. Not only does it sound rather sinuous, it seems like you might be better off saying something about being anchored in Christ, or wanting your life to be transparent with Christ shining through, or maybe Christ being the center/purpose, etc. I think they got it wrong, unless there is some other meaning that I'm just not understanding here.
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