Chapter 4
Good Monday morning to this 4th week of 2023
For those of you that have been reading with me for a while now. You know there are many recurring topics in my life. I’ve been taking you through some deep valleys of thoughts, theological challenges, quotes and speeches of amazing people and last but not least music and songs are a continuous theme.
One cold morning, as I was commuting by train to work, my hands and feet slowly warming after the bike ride to the train station, the random Spotify playlist jumped to “The Lion King Suit: Part 1 “He Lives in you”. I was about to fast forward, thinking I really don’t need “Lion King” to start the day, luckily I deliberated for 30 seconds, endured something I felt as disruption! Exactly at 0.30’min the bridge surprised me, caught me by great surprise. An absolutely beautiful, touching, awesome new version of the song unfolds. Deep into the song, past a deep solo piece, the choirs join in with “He lives in you” and the song at 2.08 pushes to another crescendo leading to yet another unexpected climax of this song.
He lives in you
He lives in me
He watches over
Everything we see
Into the water
Into the truth
In your reflection
He lives in you
Ingonyama nengw’ enamabala
Could this be an interpretation of the awesome verse out of 2nd Corinthians 4: 6-7
“Let there be light in the darkness,” He has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus. We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our greatest strength is from Him, not from ourselves.
Take care of your fragile jar of clay this week!
Philemon