In this song, the singer is trying to give all sorts of reasons why he is not in love when it becomes increasingly obvious that he is. What is he afraid of? Committing himself? Admitting that someone means so much to him? Not wanting to get involved? I don't know, perhaps all of these. There are times when we all find something we are not sure we want to be part of, even if we know we should be and are wanted to be. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
I have said before that I had a Christian upbringing. For a number of years, I sang in the Chapel choir at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. When I left school, a friend got me into Covenanters at St. Matthew's, but that ends when you reach 21. So I knew about God, and accepted that He existed. Occasionally, I went to church, perhaps to someone's wedding. But I wasn't getting involved in "any of that". Oops, I did get married in church, but that's as far as it goes! I managed to avoid church and God for much of my life after that.
Life was the usual mixture of "ups and downs" but I muddled through somehow on my own. Then two years before retirement was due I was sacked from my job. I went to church with my son once or twice, and then on an Alpha course, more to please him than for any other real reason. But I was sceptical. I knew God existed but I wasn't getting involved.
'I'm not in Love! So don't forget it. It's just a silly phase I'm going through'.
I should have been singing 'You win again!' Of course He did!
You can't win against God, but you do win with Him! I am in Love and however much I said I wasn't, I was always His. I just wouldn't admit it.
May your love of God blossom.
Jim Finch
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