Obsession
Obsession
Production
of this song started in November 2017. It’s about the desire and
longing for answers to life’s meaning and purpose. The unvarnished
truth is that it is an unsated obsession – I know of no other way
to describe it.
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There seems to be this innate drive to find meaning and purpose in our lives. Maybe it’s because we are so short-lived. Some people think that we are just the culmination of random events without purpose and design – I suppose that that in itself also answers the question of the meaning of life for those persons: there is none.
Others
are more attuned to the beauty, design and purpose of creation and so
are more convinced that there is something more out there than random
encounters of events. Someone expressed that idea in the Bible
millenniums ago:
For
you formed my inward parts;
you
knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful
are your works;
my
soul knows it very well.
15
My frame was not hidden from you,
when
I was being made in secret,
intricately
woven in the depths of the earth.
16
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in
your book were written, every one of them,
the
days that were formed for me,
when
as yet there was none of them.
Psalm
139:13-16 (ESV)
And
another writes:
As
a deer pants for flowing streams,
so
pants my soul for you, O God.
2
My soul thirsts for God,
for
the living God.
Psalm
42: 1-2 (ESV)
There
seem to be this vacuum in our hearts to be filed. If only we would
allow ourselves to consider the possibility that as creatures of the
Creator, He alone can unravel the mystery of our longing and sate it.
Obsession
is a song (yes, rock song!) about finding our meaning and rest in God
our Creator. I borrowed overtones from Augustine’s Confessions
(Book One [emphasis mine]):
Great art
Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy
wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of
Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of
his sin, the witness that Thou resistest the proud: yet would man
praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou
awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for
Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it
repose in Thee.
[roughly
updated in modern English as: for You made us for Yourself, and our
heart is restless, until it rests in You]
How,
precisely, do we sate our obsession and find meaning and purpose in
life? Jesus says that it’s only by selling everything we have, to
buy that one thing of even greater value.
44“The
kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man
found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he
has and buys that field.
45“Again,
the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,
46who,
on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had
and bought it.
Matthew
13:44-46 (ESV)
That
one thing, is to be a member of the kingdom of heaven because it is
God our Creator who gives us meaning and purpose. Membership is open
to anyone who believes that Jesus Christ died for his/her sins and
wants to put Christ as his/her Lord. Please click
here
to find out more about the good news of Jesus Christ.
I
hope you’ll enjoy the song as much as I enjoyed producing it (not
saying that there were no painful moments, but it is worth it).
There’s
always a place for rock songs for Jesus our Rock : ) (1 Corinthians
10:4).
Petrus
OMO Tan
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