Too Much

I had put off buying Sufjan’s latest release ‘the age of adz’. I’m not entirely sure why. I had heard rumours that he had gone all electro-punk and I wouldn’t particularly like it. I haven’t spent a lot of time listening to the album in detail, in-fact I have only really paid attention to the first 3 songs off the album. I have been a busy boy and it has also had to contend with new releases from Elbow and Noah and the Whale this week.

Too much is the second track from the album, it starts off with what sounds like someone using a straw to blow bubbles in a glass of coke mixed with an all out blitz on the lost city of Atlantis 2000 leagues under the sea. Then it changes too something a little more beautiful before going all out weird and if not wonderful, definitely something that intrigues you enough that you want to go back for more.

The words really got me thinking.
The chorus sings “There's too much riding on that, there's too much, too much, too much love.”
I don’t think Sufjan was directly talking about ‘character’ but in light of my recent musings that’s
 what I instantly fused the lyrics with. Character and the example that should be exploding from
a life washed with grace. We have a lot riding on this example, not too much, but it is too much
to take lightly and mess up. 

Jesus said in Matthew 5 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

There is too much riding on this, this ‘too much love’......I pray that God will build my character in a way that helps me serve this culture that surrounds me according to his will, showing his grace and love every which way that I can.