Thick of It
words and music by Brett Allen and Sean Taylor
Get out of the pit
Don't be distracted by the thick of it
Get out of the pit
Don't be distracted by the thick of it
Deep in the brambles of life gone mad
Caught in the grip of what we think we have
Life's temporary but it's hard to see
When we're so focused on what's in it for me
But there's of way of escape
There's a door in the corner
There's a window on the wall
But you gotta take it, you gotta open it
You gotta take a step and get moving
Get out of the pit
Don't be distracted by the thick of it
Get out of the pit
Don't be distracted by the thick of it
Stuck like the meat on some dead old bones
Tired of keeping up with all those Joneses
Forever's eternal but it's hard to know
When we're so focused on this world below
But there's a way of escape
There's a door in the corner
There's a window of the wall
But you gotta take, you gotta open it
You gotta take a step and get moving
Get out of the pit
Don't be distracted by the thick of it
Get out of the pit
Don't be distracted by the thick of it
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Love not the world, neither the things
that are
in the world.
If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him. For all that
is
in the world, the lust of the flesh, and
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth
away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the
will of God abideth for ever.
1 John 2:15-17 (KJV)
What
is it with us human-folk that we keep missing the big,
vast, important stuff of life because we can't help but be
sidetracked by all the day-to-day little, petty, incidental stuff?
Bills,
jobs, relationships, possessions... these things just eat up our time
and our focus and it seems like just about all our attention. So much
so that we miss the truth about them -- they are temporary.
Temporary. That means they don't last.
A caveat, of
course. Sure, there are some relationships that do and will, and those
are deserving of our time and attention (and continuing to build those
relationships that can grow to become eternal is certainly not a
"temporary" thing).
Still, the bulk of the stuff that takes up
most of our thoughts tends to be temporal (that's a fancy way of saying
it all gets eaten up by rust and moth and decay in the long run), as if
we were living in a world that was all there is and all there is ever
going to be.
Perhaps, today is a good time to remember that we
are not citizens of this world, but merely passing through until we
finally reach the "real" world, the world that C.S. Lewis described in
his Narnia books as waking from a dream into reality. Our currency is
ultimately a higher one, not the mere dollars and cents of this world.
Our jobs and careers are just stepping stones until we have the ultimate retirement and
rest and worship. Our possessions (even the cool electronic gizmos and
gadgets) are really just dust and garbage when it all comes down to it.
Let's choose to live then as a spiritual people, a forever,
eternal people, not temporal, and let's put our time and attention into
the things that will last -- and the Lord who makes the only permanent
things come into existence by the mere force of his words and thoughts.
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