Deep Calling to Deep

The Christian experience is a tailor-made journey filled with opportunities for making eternal impact on the circle of life around us. If this is indeed true ... then how can we grow weary?

So, ... Who can actually "fix" me? Well, I know it isn't me. And it sure ain't you (sorry, but that "you" applies to every person I have ever met).

From the outside looking in ... dedication to Jesus, the Christ (Christianity) looks like imprisonment - all you can't do. But, when you get inside you find His commands are "exceedingly broad" and you find freedom you never knew. You become forever freed from man measuring your value and worth, from competition with anyone else, and you ask His view on any matter and explore any topic as far as you are willing to go. That is just for starters.

This was my first Christian song (1977). It is now 2024, and I'm singing the same song :)

So where should we apply our energy? What is worth pursuit and carries the most reward in this life? All kinds of things clamor - and demand - our attention and focus ... but what should be primary? The Bible addresses such a question and quest. He makes sure such energy expenditure is never regretted. This song is mainly Proverbs 2:1-11.

The lyrics were written by Jane Fontaine sometime before 1979. We were both working at a Street Gospel Mission in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and wound up doing about 30 songs together - most original. She brought this one to me (with her own music to it) - and without hesitation, I put her lyrics to a tune I had just worked up. I knew those lyrics fit my tune. After a couple years of performing this one, she told me how that had hurt her feelings ... but, she grew to like my tune better. Army boots walking in a field of daisies. That's the story of my life.

Mis-spelled on purpose. If Jesus did not physically rise from the dead ... "let us eat and drink (and be merry) for tomorrow we die" (1Cor 15:32 with Isa 22:13 and Isa 56:12). But, if He actually did physically resurrect after being butchered on a Roman cross and is "alive forevermore" (Rev 1:18) ... that changes things.

The Bible teaches a lot about sin. A lot. One declaration Jesus made is as follows: "Every one who commits sin is the slave of sin" (Jn 8:34). The Bible is also clear that "all have sinned" (Rom 3:23). This song title seems like a reasonable question to me. I want freedom How about you?

This song addresses, in verse 1, my pre-Christian time, then verse 2 is my present Christian experience (which I am still in as of 12/20/23) and verse 3 is my future Christian time.