Come On

One of my favorite bands is Rend Collective Experiment. They hail from Bangor, Northern Ireland... the land of rolling emerald hills, shamrocks, and spuds. Not really (about the spuds so i hear.) They have a song called Come On that has been so relevant to my life recently and I think is relevant to all those who long to worship Jesus.

The song is very simple, yet in it is a profound truth.

The lyrics are:

Come on my soul
Come on my soul
Let down the walls
And sing my soul

Come on, come on, come on, come on
It's time to look up


I love this song because it declares the truth of what we want our hearts to be in our worship of Jesus. There are times when I am either leading worship (musically) or just in the congregation and I feel like I am so far from a place of worship. I feel distracted, disengaged, and just plain distant from God. Sometimes there is no desire in my heart to worship at all. Before I had ever heard this song, I was talking to a worship pastor about this place of the heart. I asked him about those times when we feel out of it and distant. What should we do? He said that sometimes we have to force our heart to worship God. We must tell God "I know I don't feel like worshiping right now, but I want to want to worship. Take me to that place Lord." He said that there times when he will do whatever is necessary to get his soul in a place of worship, even if it means lying prostrate on the ground in front of everyone starting at him. If that is what it takes to force our heart to want to worship, then that is what we must do.

I love the truth that this song captures. The only response to God is worship, and when we don't feel like, we need to beckon our hearts and say

"Come on my soul! Let down the walls. It's time to look up!"



JN