Have you ever had the feeling that there is something great in the world that you are missing, although it is right in front of you? This past week I accidentally made a discovery that has already begun to change my life in a very small, yet important way. After diving head first into the ocean of Christian music several years ago, I had a few good years of meaningful listening. I was at a point where I didn't really enjoy music unless it was praising God. Then, I began to grow more and more cynical towards all contemporary Christian music. I felt that it was rarely sung from the heart. It was all ultimately cliché, I sometimes thought. In fact, I began to wonder if there were any mainstream Christian artists who's inspiration came from God, instead of a paycheck. My love of God and appreciation for heartfelt music should have coincided wonderfully, but my perception of the landscape of Christian music made that very difficult.
After a very dry year (or 2) I've finally come to a place where I know I must have been wrong. There are artists who use their talents to praise God from their heart, not from their wallet. It makes me wonder what else I've been wrong about! Anyways, here's the man who broke some of my cynicism towards mainstream Christian pop music, one step at a time.
Mountains On The Ocean Floor
from "The Far Country"
Words and music by Andrew Peterson
(I Samuel 16:7, Revelation 2:17, Romans 7:15-25, Phillipians 1:6)
My uncle’s in the county jail
His time is on his hands
He knows he chose a barren cell
Over a fair and fertile land
He took another hit
He hit another high
He flew until he fell
Just like he has a thousand times
Nothing ever seems to change
But miles away beneath the waves
There are mountains
Mountains on the ocean floor
They’re rising from the deep
But no one ever sees
No one ever sees
I can’t believe I landed there
I swear I swore it off
I know that I can’t stand it here
Still I came and took a fall
I wish that I could shake it
I wish that I was free
I wish that I was half the man
I wish that I could be
There are mountains
Mountains on the ocean floor
They’re moving up so slow
No one ever knows
No one ever knows
Nothing ever seems to change
But miles away beneath the waves
Down below the dirt
Hotter than a flame
In the belly of the earth
He has given you a Name
There are mountains
Mountains on the ocean floor
They’re rising from the deep
Where no one ever sees
There are mountains
They’re hidden there beneath the waves
They’re moving up so slow
No one ever knows
There’s a molten heart of stone
That is waiting to explode
Only God can see it grow
www.andrew-peterson.com/music
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1 comment:
I got to feeling that way a couple of years ago, but than I had to sit down and think about all the selling out in the Christian world. I came to a conclusion but i think that maybe God brought this conclusion to me to be precise. God uses diffrent people to get across his messages their are even athist that have proven God even though thay were trying to do the oppsite, so it's not the place or the people that it's comming from, but what the people that are listing are getting out of it. You can tell the Godly lyricks from the worldly I'm not talking about the sell outs that end up on Kiss 95.1 but that can even work in God's favor. You here them on the raido get in to them start looking in to the fact that they had older CD's. You decide to buy one and like it better God just go you through the worldly circuit. I have learned to not look so hard at the band but what the song says. I never know what I'm saying but most of the time but when people need me to help them some insane great words flow from my lips and people seem to feel better. Their is no other explination to this than God. So no matter why you say the things you say or do the things you do God can always find a way to shine through. Allthought I could just be totally batty.
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