Grace of God - Clay Aiken
Grace of God - Clay Aiken
Some folks always get the rough ride
Seem they end up on the wrong side
Constant battle just to survive on any given day
I watched a mother on my TV
Hungry children that she can't feed
Still I've got everything that I need
And that just don't seem right
That I sleep safe tonight
*There's got to be some rhyme or reason why
We turn away and we close our eyes
Wish I could find some way that we could justify
all of this suffering there but for the grace of God go I
Everyday it makes the headline
Someone struggling for their lives
I feel like watching from the sideline
where nothing ever changed
just the truth got rearranged
Repeat *
Sometimes it's hard to believe
the truth that you can't even see
But faith holds the hope for the world
And I know, I know
Repeat *
When I'm thinking it's a bad day
Feels like nothing's going my way
I passed a wreck out on the freeway
and prayed that they survived
There but for the grace of God go I
一直都很喜歡 Clay Aiken 的歌，這首 Grace Of God 更是有很多值得思考的空間。這些年來都發生很多的事，911、地震、海潚，最近還發生了「馬尼拉槍手脅持旅行團」的事件。常常都有人問，如果上帝是慈愛、是公義的，為甚麼祂要讓這些事情發生、流無辜人的血? 我們都很痛心，可是對於這些事我們只能旁觀著，並沒有甚麼可以做的。
副歌裡說到這些事的發生一定是有一些原因、有一些理由的，歌者很想為這些不公平的事找到一個合理的解釋。但為著神的恩典，即使沒有一個合理的解釋，歌者還是繼續努力下去。整首歌裡面沒有說明甚麼是神的恩典，也沒有解釋怎樣能夠「for the grace of God go I」。是的，我們很難相信眼看不見的神，順服於一些我們覺得不合理的事情。我想這是信神的人一個很大的考驗，也是一個很奇妙的恩典。你不信，你覺得不合理，大可以掉頭就走，沒有人阻止你，事實上很多人也這麼做了。但當一個人見著這麼多的事，心裡經過這麼多的掙扎，還能放下自己的那一套、選擇繼續相信，有那個選擇的能力，是神的恩典。
posted by 惠子 @ 2:04 上午
3 Comments:
想不到你還會來這裏寫呀!!早陣子我還在想要不要摺了這裏...
它在我的 dash board 上，每看一眼就是責備我一次、剌痛我的心一下...
既然沒有人在寫了，我也可以肆無忌憚地壟斷這個 blog 的發言吧.. 呵呵呵...
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