mak28:

I know this is much after the fact but just receiving your album earlier this week I wanted to say I’m very thankful for this post and your openness in sharing your faith and heart.

I grew up in a Christian home and would have labeled myself a Christian for most of my life. I attended church every week, taught Sunday School classes, went to Bible study, was on committees working in the church, even church board chairman at a fairly young age. Never the less, my heart had no great desire for God and true love was not there. I made the endless search to satisfy my own desire in music, owning well over 2,000 metal CD’s amassed over the course of 18 years. It wasn’t until, at the age of 30, January last year I fell in love with Jesus Christ, in the silence of an empty room, there realizing, after all the years, the true depravity of my heart, the hypocrisy and emptiness of my spirit. Recognizing in part that the wall of CD’s beside me was a visual representation of my emptiness the Lord changed my heart and my desire ran and yearned for only what truly honored the Lord. Matthew 5:6 became true and no longer did it have to be stripped from my Bible. He could satisfy all my longings and He alone was worthy. In no legalistic way but rather, as Tozer describes in The Pursuit of God about the gaze of the soul and the old hymn says, when I turned my eyes upon Jesus the things of earth grew strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

In these days I have lost much entertainment in the world’s eyes but I search only, and that beyond all bounds, for a life that truly praises and gives honor and glory to God and for this reason I’m thankful for your words and this CD. Yes it is entertaining, an outstanding album in those terms, but it is eternally minded. I pray that it brings honor to Him! If no one were to ever hear it, would it satisfy the King? Let it be a prayer in the Spirit! The last line of the song is the greatest. 1 Corinthians 2:2 “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

I’ll pray for your boldness brother and hope that in all you do you may have the strength to impact eternity! I pray that upon entering the gates you have gained souls for the kingdom by the workings of the Spirit in your heart! Bless you brother! Be strengthened in the Lord! As Leonard Ravenhill would esteem, we should desire to be known in hell warring against the kingdom of Satan, conquerors for Christ!

James 1:12 “Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.”