It was a GREEN DAY yesterday…
It’s been a while. A long while. The last time I watched the VMA show on MTV was when Hootie & The Blowfish was actually hot and Van Halen made a guest appearance. Much like what MC Hammer did last night in his guest appearance. I decided last night that I would actually sit through the whole show to get a glimpse of what is out there in the land of music. One of the things I remembered from the last show I watched sometime ago was the number of "thank you God’s." Nothing wrong with this. Can’t judge a persons heart for the Lord. Last nights show had a whole lot less of the, "I thank God for…" during the performers thank you speeches. I think I counted five or six "I thank God’s" inserted into the "thank you so much" speeches. I also noticed was that Pdiddy’s work at proclaming the Gospel. Pdiddy was the spokesperson for the lastest in Jesus wear. His "God is the Greatest" t-shirt he wore stood out like a sore thumb. Watch out WWJD! Pdiddy made it once again hip to wear the latest in Jesus gear.
The band that really came out a winner last night was Green Day. Now I have to admit. I actually like some of Green Day’s music. The lyrics I could probaly do with out. On the flip side, the lyrics to many of their songs are very powerful I found the lyrics to one of their winning hits last night here. The song acutally reminded me of growing up in Hollywood as a kid…here are a few lines of "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where
it goes
But it’s home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city
sleeps
and I’m the only one and I walk alone
My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only
thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til
then I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city
sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk a…
My shadow’s the only one
that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s
beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk
alone…
Powerful lyrics. After watching the show, I believe the lyrics speak volumes of much of what took place on the show. I have no doubt those who serve in youth ministry have students who understand loneliness. Many of the adults in our churches if they stopped and listened (okay read) to the lyrics would find that they themselves have walked down roads of loneliness in their own lives. We have a huge job in loving and ministering to youth right where they are at in their lives. They need someone to walk with them down the lonely roads of adolescence and to shine some kind of hope that the Lord is with us in the midst of the stuff of life. Thanks be to God that he walks with us and fills those places where we feel like we walk alone.