Awake My Soul- Mumford and Sons

How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes I struggle to find any truth in your lies And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know This weakness I feel I must finally show
The way this song starts out, it what first caught my attention. I had just bought the album and was listening through. When it reached this track, I kept repeating the song... in fact this has the highest play rate in my itunes library. As I listened to it... thoughts started twirling and spinning in my head about how we are, with our human nature... fickle and spiritually ADD... We long to follow after God, its hardwired into us. After all, he is our creator... In the movie 9, the character 9 awakes to a devistating world. He goes in search of his creator... when he finds him, he realizes that he created 9 beings to carry parts of himself. The creator poured himself into his creation... Just as God breathed into each of us the breath of life. But we have doubts and encounter harships and weakness is a word that we are ashamed of...
Think about it, we're stubborn, we fight to have our own way, even if it leads to destruction and then when we find ourselves at a point where we have to admit we're wrong, we do so grudgingly... God's not going to laugh in our face and say I told you so... although sometimes I think he gets a kick out of just how stubborn and silly we can be. God did not create us to watch us fall into destruction... but if we try to do things on our own, that is where Satan enters the picture... I imagine him to be much like Loki... saying one thing to convince you to do another... if you've seen Thor, you know the scene Iam talking about. Thor has just been reprimanded for urging his father to fight the frost giants. His father tells him that these are the thoughts of a boy, not a king. Thor is angered by the words and while he is sulking, Loki comes to talk to him... tells him that he agrees with Thor, but that he shouldn't go because it against their fathers wishes. So what does Thor do? He goes to Jotunheim... only after convincing his friends to go with him.



The lyrics to Awake my soul sum up Satans desires for us this way:Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall Lend me your eyes I can change what you see But your soul you must keep, totally free... He offers us money, a fame and populity in exchange for our souls... he wants so badly to pull us from God. If we are not careful, we will let the things of this world become idols to which we are seduced to worship at their altars...
But we must remember that: In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die Where you invest your love, you invest your life In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die Where you invest your love, you invest your life.
In Matthew 6:19-22 we read: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
C.S. Lewis wrote: You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
Let your soul awake this morning to all the amazing things that God has for you! Keep the words of Jeremiah 29:11 close to your heart... God has a purpose and plan for your life! Have a great Day!