This Isn’t Heaven
Hi friends! Since I posted my song story video for This Isn’t Heaven last week (you can watch it below), I thought I’d follow it up by giving you a breakdown of the song and sharing my heart for writing it.
If ever I wrote a song I needed myself, it’s this one. But be encouraged, my friends. The Lord wants to bring order to our chaos and eternal perspective to our temporal preoccupation. This song is a prompting for that.
I invite you to read my commentary in bold below and take a deeper dive into this song with me.
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Verse 1
Caught up in the life
We’ve worked hard to make (It’s so easy to get caught up in the grind of daily life.)
So busy with trying to win
We forget what’s at stake (We can get so focused on trying to get ahead, that we lose sight of what really matters.)
We live in the present
Focused just on today
Saying life is too short so step out
Leave it all on the stage (How often do we find ourselves putting everything into this moment, this lifetime, instead of balancing it with an eternal perspective? And popular culture certainly encourages it!)
Chorus
Why are we living like this is heaven
When this isn’t heaven (2x) (A question to ponder!)
Verse 2
All in on a lie
That says do as you please
There’s no right and no wrong (Popular culture encourages us to live our own truth, instead of being anchored by THE Truth.)
There’s just now (Again, it’s so easy to get caught up in the now, with little thought of consequences.)
So keep living your dreams (The world also says to do what makes us happy, at all costs. Dreams are important, but not at the expense of losing sight of heaven!)
Pre-chorus/Bridge
What have we gained at the end of the day when it all fades away (2x) (What have we gained by all that striving, all that worry and spending on temporal things, when those things will fade away?)
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Reflection Questions
Why do you think it’s so easy to get caught up in the temporal and live like we’re already home?
Writing this song caused me to do an audit of where I was spending my time, talent, and treasures and make some adjustments. Do you see the benefit of such an audit in your own life?
How do you balance the demands of daily life with a focus on the eternal?
Hebrews 13:14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?