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I don’t know about you, but music fills my soul.  I love music – almost all kinds, but worship music…I love it.  It can bring me out of a funk and remind me how blessed I am.  Last week driving home from work, I was listening to the David Crowder Band (a common occurrence).  I love Crowder with his powerful lyrics and catchy music.  I probably shouldn’t listen to him when I’m driving as I like to air drum the steering wheel & I often go just a tad over the speed limit (also a common occurrence when listening to Crowder).  But it’s easy to do – I just get lost in his songs.
 
I have my favorites by him that I play all the time, others that I play on occasion and a few not at all as we all do with our favorite artists.  But last week while I was singing away I chose not to fast forward during the song Remedy.  It has always been on the “occasional” list so I’ve listened to it before, but this time I truly listened.  And it spoke to me. Here is just a sample of the lyrics:

“Here we are, the broken, the used, mistreated, abused.
Here we are, bandaged and bruised, Awaiting a cure.
Here You are, Our beautiful King, Bringing Relief.
You are the One who has saved us, Who forgave us
You’re the remedy.”  

What caught my attention is how most people have felt bruised and used at times.  And right now our world is hurting.  It seems to be coming apart at the seams.  Every day we hear that more people have lost their jobs or foreclosures have gone up or there’s been another shooting.  People are looking for a sign the recession is turning around, that everything is going to be okay.  Our world is lost and it needs hope.  It needs Jesus.

So I continued to listen and wonder why God wanted me to hear this particular song.  I knew that it was written to give hope to the hopeless.  That seemed pretty obvious.  But what was my role in all this?  I feel bruised and beat up at times too.  I need Jesus as much as anyone else.  But at the end I knew.  See Crowder changes the lyrics from “You’re the remedy” to “Let us be the remedy”.  I quickly went into a panic.   When he says us does he mean me??   I can’t be the remedy.  I sin.  And on a regular basis.  So how can I be the remedy when I can’t be perfect? 

 
Well, I can’t – at least not by myself.  I need to let God work through me.  And I do that by opening myself up to love others.  Can I love like Jesus?  Nope.  I am flawed so there is no way I can love like Jesus.  I won’t be perfect, but I can love by being patient and kind.  I can tell them how much God loves them, that they are worthy and important. I can give hugs to those no one else would think to touch and I can hold their hand and look them in the eye.  I can pray they will feel and know they are loved.  I can bring them hope.  And I can do it right here and now and I can do it around the globe.  I can be the remedy. 
Wow.  Go figure.