We're All the Same

Before I start this next post's topic, I want to say that I was tempted several times to go back and change, delete, or lessen the last post's message. I kept thinking that maybe I was too extreme, too bold, or too "Jesus-freakish," and I should have written less. Even though I still worry and am a bit embarrassed to show this blog to anyone and everyone, I haven't changed it. I think what I wrote about last time is something that many girls I know go through, and I feel like I needed to speak up and remind them just how loved they really are. So, I won't touch it. I really just want to do what God pushes me to.

Which brings me to the next topic. I've been asking God what the next post should be about, and I really didn't get anything from Him. Of course I have my own ideas that one day, I hope I'll post, but I don't want to reveal those yet. Earlier this evening, I was cleaning and I remembered this song that I absolutely love, so I put it on. As it was playing I listened to the lyrics carefully and felt that God wanted to say something through this song.

I've had a few other 'secular' songs really speak to me before, like One Republic's "Come Home,"
and the Bon Jovi song that I mentioned earlier. This particular song became famous because it was used with the "Free Hugs Campaign" video that surfaced on the internet. That's right, "All the Same" by the Sick Puppies. I don't know how religious, or anti-religious, this group really is, but this song speaks volumes about God's love for us. It really is like a love song.

I want to go through the song and break it down just to show you how God is speaking.

"I don't mind where you come from/ as long as you come to me"

God does not care what we've done in our past, as long as we come to Him for repentance and give our lives to Him. He doesn't care where we've come from -- meaning race, gender, past beliefs, past behaviors, whatever. He just wants us to come to Him. "I will call them 'my people' who are not my people; and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one," - Romans 9:25

"I don't like illusions I can't see/them clearly"

Like most of us, God doesn't like a liar. He doesn't want us to hide our feelings from Him or pretend that we agree with what's happening in our lives. He wants us to be upfront and real with Him. He doesn't want us to go day in and day out doing the "church thing" without actually seeking Him. He wants us to seriously pursue Him with all of our hearts. I always remember Job when I think about being honest with God. Through all of his pain and suffering, he did not once agree with what God was doing in his life. He was upfront and real with Him about how much pain he was going though. He was honestly seeking God for answers. God won't answer those who don't seek Him with their full hearts.

"I don't care no I wouldn't dare/ To fix the twist in you"

This touches on what I talked about in my last post. God created us to be who we are. Every freckle, every unwanted hair, every crease is how God would have it to be. Even our very personalities were formed by God. No matter how stubborn or how much we dislike our bodies, He wouldn't dare have it any other way.

"You've shown me eventually/What you'll do"

Every action and every reaction we make, God knows about it. He not only knows what we will do tomorrow, but He knows what we will do a week, three months, and ten years from now.

"I don't mind.../I don't care.../As long as you're here!"

I love this line because it truly shows God's love for us, no matter where or who we've been. As long as we are dancing with and in relationship with Him, He can overlook what harm we've done and restore our hearts.

"Go ahead tell me you'll leave again/You'll just come back running/Holding your scarred heart in hand"

If any of my readers are like me, they know there are times in which they feel like giving up and throwing in the towel; Giving up trying to do the right thing; giving up trying to please God. Our fallen nature always convinces us that when life is hard, we must run away from or rebel against Him. Many of us think that God is the One who is doing the harming or think that He is cruel. So we leave. We give up. But God knows better. He knows that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Eventually, when we want to get back to the Truth and get back to Love, we will come running, holding our scarred and unprotected hearts in our hands.


"And I'll take you for who you are/If you take me for everything/Do it all over again/It's all the same"

Again, God will take us for just who we are. He will love and accept my sinfulness, my jealousy, my depression, and my self-esteem problems; but only if I accept Him as my Savior, my Everything. Even if I run away or rebel against Him again and again, He will accept me again and again without hesitation.

"Hours slide and days go by/Till you decide to come/And in between it always seems too long"

This stanza shows the romance between us and God. No matter how long we are "away from" God, to Him, it seems like an eternity when we are not walking with Him.

"And I have the skill, yeah I have the will/To breathe you in while I can/However long you stay/Is all that I am"

This line seems a bit more difficult to understand, but I believe that it's saying that God has the power to change and transform our lives if we let Him.

"Wrong or right/Black or white/If I close my eyes/It's all the same"

Again, no matter if we are on the right or the wrong "side" of life, no matter our skin color, or our differences, it's all the same to God. He loves us as His own.


"In my life/The compromise/I close my eyes/It's all the same"

This part of the song kind of echoes, and I feel like this line is something we say when we start to wonder what is more important to us. We can compromise and give in to the ways of the world -- greed, lust, jealousy, anger, etc. Or, we can "close our eyes" to it and reopen them to a New Life.


If you are interested in hearing the song, you can listen to it here.
I hope that you will listen and enjoy it, not only because I love it, but because it really is like a love song from God.