I borrowed the G’s “Self-Titled’ Caedmon’s Call CD again this week. I need to just go out and buy it as I have borrowed it for weeks on end many times!

The CD has great music with great lyrics, and I recommend it to any Christian. The last song is called “Coming Home“, and some of the lyrics struck me today in particular that I wanted to mention.

Will you run to me?
Will you come to me?
Will you meet me, will you greet me
Will you drag me home ’cause I’m still a long way off

Yes! These lyrics do evoke the parable of the prodigal son, but I love the last line of this verse, where he asks God to “drag him home” because he’s so still far off.

I have literally told God many times, when I feel that my heart is not where it should be for some reason, to “use whatever means necessary” to bring me closer to his heart and to conform my own desires to his. Even if he has to drag me, I want him to make my heart like unto his!

I know he won’t take away my free will, which seems to me like a gift and a curse at the same time. I know God doesn’t want automatons, but I sure can’t wait until Heaven when sin and evil are gone and, in the words of Bono, “then there will be no time for sorrow–then there will be no time for shame” (Where the Streets Have No Name (live from Rotterdam)).

(Only two days ’til the G, the R, and me go to Houston for the U2 concert, so I got them on the brain!)