Play the Background

Here’s a follow up to yesterday’s guest post.  If you haven’t read that, go check it out and jump back here and get in on the conversation.

One of the albums that I enjoy listening to is “Rehab” by Lecrae.  (You can purchase that here.)  The whole album is great but, one of my favorite songs on the album is “Background”.

Check out his video for “Background”

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It is lines like these that mess with my head…

It’s evident you run the show, so let me back down
You take the leading role, and I’ll play the background
I know I miss my cues, know I forget my lines
I’m sticking to your script, and I’m reading all your signs
I don’t need my name in lights, I don’t need a starring role
Why gain the whole wide world, If I’m just going lose my soul

I mean, for real… Why gain the world only to loose your soul along the way.  This messes with my head because to many people think that kind of thinking is crazy!  We know people who have sacrificed their family and their friends in order to step up another rung on the ladder.  We know men who have lost their marriages because they believed the lie that other women were telling them.  This may even be your story!

Lecrae throws it down in this song.  I don’t care if you are a pastor, a youth pastor, a church secretary, a plumber, a CEO, or a line cook… God honors humility.

The fear of the Lord is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor comes humility.

~Proverbs 15:33

Can you say this with Lecrae: “Matter of fact, just take my pen, here, you create my rhymes”?  That means setting aside your desires, your plans and your dreams in order to follow and live by God’s desires, plans, and dreams.   That is setting down and surrendering the rights to your dreams.  Wow!  I wish that I could say that was true in my life all the time.

What is most challenging about being humble?  Or maybe even a more difficult question is, Do you trust God enough to give him your dreams?

~Peter