Hello our dear friends and neighbors! A few of our members are at sonshine festival (like a lot of you I assume) and I (Julian) thought I should post the lyrics to our two songs. We hope this gives you a view into what we believe about our God and would love to talk about Him to anyone who wants to do so

SO our first song on our EP called We Are All Grasshoppers

and our lyrics are...

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth/and His people are like grasshoppers

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy/and spreads them out like a tent to live in

He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing

No sooner are they planted/no sooner are they sown/no sooner do they take root in the ground/in the ground

And He blows on them and they wither/And the withered get swept away/Then He blows on them and they wither/And the withered get swept all away/They get swept all away

We are all grasshoppers

And they are actually straight from the Old Testament in Isaiah chapter 40 where it says...

 22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, 

       and its people are like grasshoppers.

       He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,

       and spreads them out like a tent to live in

 23 He brings princes to naught 

       and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing

 24 No sooner are they planted,

       no sooner are they sown,

       no sooner do they take root in the ground,

       than he blows on them and they wither, 

       and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff

As you can see we pretty much took them word for word from the Bible because we like the passage so much (and we don’t consider ourselves to be the best of writers =P). But we believe these verses show us that our God is a God who is all-powerful and any control we may think we have over our lives is ultimately under His control. He can bring the "rulers of this world to nothing" and sweep us away like chaff (that’s the lightest part of grain and when the Hebrew women would toss the grain around in a basket the chaff (which was undesirable) would just get blown away in the wind…cool huh =P). So it may seem like God is kinda not to nice from that passage BUT although God is a God of justice and even a God of righteous wrath, we are told in the New Testament (and Old as well) that He is also a God of grace and Love. And we know that He sent Christ as the biggest gift of grace because…

"In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.(Ephesians 1:7-8)"

Sometimes, as Christians, we fear the Old Testament because God is seen as maybe a "meaner" God and sometimes described as a "God of Wrath" instead of a God of Love, but we need to see that God treats his people in the Old Testament like a father and everytime God would give Israel commandments they would disobey him by practicing idolatry, homosexuality, greediness, and many other sins He directly forbade. The difference is that back then they're atonement (salvation) was through sacrifice and our atonement is the grace of Christ. But God is the same throughout the entire Scripture, it says in Exodus that He is “compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,” (Exodus 34:6) But we can’t take God’s grace for granted, just because He doesn’t engulf us in flames or things like that, He is still a God to obey. Paul directly addresses that question in Romans 6.

1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

which could be a segway into our other song FourThirteen and the lyrics for that are here. (the bold sections are Jesus talking, or at least our paraphrasing)

I am thirsting thirsting/this water has not quenched my throat/I need, I need/the water to maintain/I need the water to delay the pain/This thirst is killing me

“Thirst no more/I have found the cure/Thirst no more/I am the cure”

The fountain of love will build up over and over again

“And everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again/but whoever drinks the water that I give them will thirst no more”

Springs will overflow/and you will see the grace flow through your veins

The fountain is abounding in love/over and over and over again

I need, I need/the water to maintain/I need the water to delay the pain/delay the pain.

“You don’t need no water/You don’t need no well/(There’s) no thirst unquenchable/Thirst no more”

Thirst no more/I found the cure

Thirst no more

The origin of these lyrics are again from the Bible and the name is actually a reference to the verse John 4:13 and here's the passage surrounding that verse

7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

 11"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" 13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Basically what we see is Christ telling this Samaritan woman that this metaphorical "water" of the earth will ultimately never satisfy her thirst, for man is made in the image of God and therefore can only be filled by God, not the material things of this world or even the immaterial things of Satan. When Christ talks about this "living water" he is referring to the pouring out of the Holy Spirit that happens when you become a Christian. What I mean by pouring out of the Spirit is that you will see an actual change in your life, a real transformation of you're motives and purpose in life. This is what sets us apart as true Christ followers, when we act on what we know. Tons of people hear the Gospel and they take different things away from it. Jesus speaks in Matthew about different seeds.

3Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.6But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9He who has ears, let him hear."

And His explanation…

19When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. 20The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. 22The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. 23But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

For me the most dangerous of these seeds are the middle two, the ones who receives the Word but either fall away or don’t produce fruits for Christ. These are the people who portray Chrstians as fools to the rest of the world. We’re called to so much more than that. So please if you are a Christian, I don’t care about denominations or little disputes on doctrine, but there is one thing we can agree on and that is that we are the children of God and in a world that doesn’t know God, we can be their light and advance the Kingdom of God here on earth. I’m sorry if this all seemed like a bit much about song lyrics haha but it’s something that God’s laid on my heart and the whole band’s heart. We’re all your brothers in Christ and we love all of ya’s. And we TRULY are open to talk anytime!

God Bless,

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