This is one of my favorite songs, “I’m Not Alright,” by Sanctus Real.
I like this song for two reasons. The first is that the chorus - “I’m not alright, I’m broken inside, broken inside. And all I go through, leads me to You.” - really gets to the heart of why we do need Jesus. It’s not, as many a Christian-basher would have you think, that we need to feel superior (read: holier-than-thou) or that we cannot think for ourselves, but because we are all broken inside in some way and to some degree and only Jesus can heal that brokenness.
The second reason has to so with the second verse:
Burn away the pride, bring me to my weakness
Until everything I hide behind is gone
and when I’m open wide with nothing left to cling to
only you are there to lead me on
Because honestly, I’m not that strong
I have a tendency to avoid God when things are not going well because I think I can handle it on my own, or I am too proud to ask for help. This verse is very much like what I have had to go through more times than I would like to admit - to have God strip away everything that I am hiding behind, until I am forced to turn to Him. And that is really what I need because, like it or not, I am really not as strong as I would like to think I am. I have never really been able to make things better without leaning on the Lord for my strength.
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