On my trip home from Arkansas back in November (yes, it takes me that long to finish a blog post!) I was listening to the new Propaganda album. Which I've found to be pretty heavy. I have to listen to his songs a few times to get them and even then it's iffy. Anyway, he has this song called "Precious Puritans" that is so good! It makes you uncomfortable and makes you think and then after I read this http://www.joethorn.net/2012/09/24/precious-puritans-pt-1/ and this http://www.joethorn.net/2012/09/25/precious-puritans-pt-2/, I liked the song even more. The first link is about how the puritans accepted slavery. The second link is Propaganda speaking about what the song means. Here is an excerpt of the song:
They got it but they didn’t get it. There’s not one generation of believers that figured out the marriage between proper doctrine and action. Don’t pedestal these people, your precious puritans partners purchased people. Why would you quote them? Step away. Think of the congregation that quotes you. Are you inerrant? Trust me I know the feeling. It’s the same feeling I get when people quote me. Like, if you only knew! I get it. But I don’t get it. Ask my wife. And, it bothers me when you quote puritans, if I’m honest, for the same reason it bothers me when people quote me–they precious propaganda. So, I guess it’s true. God really does use crooked sticks to make straight lines. Just like your precious puritans. In the interview he says the song was meant to be a bait and switch. He actually does enjoy learning from the Puritans but wanted to warn against thinking they had it all figured out. I love how he ends it with pointing back at people quoting himself and calls himself "Their precious Propaganda". This song plays in my mind at strange times now. When someone tells me I'm such a good mom and asks my advice I think "I get it, but I don't get it." How unworthy am I to give advice. Whom of us really gets it?! Jesus, he's the only quotable. For now we have to settle for crooked sticks that GOD makes straight. I was reading in 1 Samual the other day. About the story where the Philistines stole the Ark and wanted to give it back because God was basically torturing them. They decided that they would figure out if the Ark was legit by putting two cows that had never been on a yoke to pull it. They would see where it went. If it wandered then they knew that their torture was a coincidence and if the cows took it straight back to the Isrealites then they knew that the Ark was directed by God (actually I think they thought the Ark was the god of the Isrealites). When the ark went straight back to the Isrealites without ever turning to the left or right they knew. When the Ark got back the Isrealites sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering. I found myself slightly sad, thinking, "But they should reward the cows for getting the Ark home!" Lol!! I think this reveals in me a inclination to praise the tool rather than the Lord. As if there was something special about the cows. When the cows were only made special because God chose to use them. In one of the questions in the interview with Propaganda he said something about how we shouldn't be praising people and thinking they have it all figured out. But amazed that our God is so good that He can use these imperfect sinful people! That we shouldn't say, "Wow, Propaganda!" but "Wow, God! And He used Propaganda?!" How important is it for us to praise and realize that our God is so praise worthy for being able to use crooked sticks to make straight lines. Obviously these are all imprefect thoughts from a crooked stick. ; )
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