Cannot Keep You

I was listening to my "Sunday Mix" on iTunes this morning and a song came on that made me stop what I was doing, and listen for a couple minutes. Gungor's "Cannot Keep You" off their Beautiful Things album.

A lot of Praise & Worship songs are... umm... fluffy, "Jesus is my boyfriend" tunes or cliche, "let's take a verse of scripture and sing it over and over" songs. The songs on Beautiful Things are not those types of songs.

I love this song because I have experienced God outside of the Christian/Church sub-culture, as much (maybe more) than inside the "Christian bubble."

We cannot keep God in a box. We cannot keep God in our church. We cannot keep God in our Bible. God is alive and at work in the world around us, using the sacred and the secular to reach people, show himself, and draw them closer to him.

Cannot Keep You
they could not keep you in a tent
they could not keep you in a temple
or any of their idols, to see and understand

we cannot keep you in a church
we cannot keep you in a Bible
or it’s just another idol to box you in

they could not keep you in their box
we cannot keep you in ours either
you are so much greater

who is like the Lord
the maker of the Heavens
who dwells with the poor
and he lifts them from the ashes
and he makes them sit with princes
who is like the Lord

We’ve tried to keep you in our tents
We’ve tried to keep you in our temples
We’ve worshiped all our idols, we want all that to end
We will find you in the streets
We will find you in the prisons
and even in our Bibles and churches

who is like the lord
the maker of the heavens
lover of my soul
who takes me from the ashes
who heals me of my blindness
who is like the Lord