Remedy

“Here we are. Here we are. The Broken and used, mistreated, abused. Here we are.” -David Crowder Band

We are all broken in some way. We are all taken advantage of at some point in our lives. No one is immune. We try to hide the person we really are so that no one has to see who we really are. Diseased. Ugly. Hateful. Judgmental. Perverted. Drunk. Slut. Racist. Fool. Scarred. Scared. Helpless.

These are just a few of the things we think we are in our minds, in our private, closed in, walled off mind. We think we are worthless and sick.

The quote above is from one of my favorite songs. It speaks about the human condition.

Music has been a huge part of my life especially for the last ten years. I bought my first guitar when I was only fourteen years old. It was a bass guitar and it was cheap. In all I spent $150 on that first guitar. Fast forward ten years and I had spent well over $2500 on instruments. I love stringed instruments so I bought an electric guitar. I then purchased an acoustic guitar, and then a drum set, and then another drum set. I love making music.

Since the age of nineteen I have been a part of a worship band in some way. For ten years I worked to become a worship leader, the leader of the band if you will. The funny thing is, I always thought that if I pushed just a little bit harder, worked just a little bit longer, all my private problems would disappear. The only problem was, it didn't work.

I had a messed up view of grace. I thought that if I became who I thought God wanted me to be that I would be happy. This thinking only drove me deep into depression because I couldn't make it to where I thought God wanted me to be.

When a person has an addiction to something whether it is heroin, alcohol, or something that seems more innocent like food, tobacco, or porn; they become a liar. All addicts lie. They lie to hide their addiction and the shame they feel. They lie because they are an addict and they can't do anything in their own power to break that addiction. We can only break the addiction when we realize that we can't do it on our own and that we need help.

“Oh I can't comprehend, I can't take it all in. I'll never understand such perfect love come for the broken and beat, the wounded, and weak. Come fall at His feet. He's the remedy, He's the remedy...” -David Crowder Band

There is only one remedy for the human condition. There is only one cure for the addictions that hold a person prisoner. It's not a medication, hypnosis, or chant. No amount of self effort can treat the condition of the human heart. The only cure for the human condition is the One who created the human.

“For God so loved the world (us) that He sent His one and only son (to earth), that who so ever believes in Him (the Son) will be saved.” (John 3:16 NIV emphasis added)

Listen to Remedy by the David Crowder Band