This keeps with the running theme of this song, becoming jaded and lost, when everything seems to be falling apart we get more and more bitter, “why can’t my life be simple?” “why do i keep failing, no matter how hard i try?” sometimes we can try to trick ourselves and those around us that we’re okay, that nothing is wrong and things don’t need to change, but this is where we need to be honest with ourselves, in order to truly overcome our shortcomings. Without these things, we stay bitter, isolated and drift away from Christ. We need to break bread with our friends as man was not made to be alone, and we need to break bread that is the body of our mediator, as it helps us focus on him and what he has done for us. We need to break bread with our enemies and forgive them in order to move on from our hurt. One of the most common themes in Christianity is the importance of breaking bread, whether that refers to the communion bread, that is Christ’s body, (Matthew 26:26) or breaking bread in the sense of making friends or forgiving our enemies, we need both to grow. The other part of this verse that i’d like to touch on is a running theme of this song, the line “never breaking bread” is a common sentiment in this wonderful song. The feeling of not being blessed because we’re not receiving the same blessings as others in our lives, is all too common in Christian culture. I’m living like i’m not blessed, despite the joy that is found in Christ, a joy i know to be true, and a joy that has more than sustained me. This to me, is an expression of the cynicism that comes when we struggle to see God’s works in our lives, and as i’m struggling with this a lot in recent weeks, this really spoke to me. Living like I’m still not blessed, blessed” It’s all too common to feel like we’re spiralling down when something that we’ve worked so hard on doesn’t come to fruition, or in other words, when we feel like we’ve missed the mark on our calling, it can seem like we’re taking two steps backwards, which can lead us into giving in to our feelings of inadequacy, which becomes a self-fulfilling cycle of loathing, we lose trust because we’re not growing, we no longer see the image of Christ in us, because we no longer trust, which is when we should be trusting the most, when we have nothing, this is when we need Christ the most. This is an incredible start, we get straight into the feelings of failure and how this can be detrimental on our walk with Christ. Turned around and took two steps, backwards Obviously, you should probably listen to “Backwards” before continuing on with this post, so here’s the link just in case! ( “Backwards”)
In this post, i’m going to be going to be picking apart the lyrics of one of my favourite songs on this album, “backwards” and explaining why this song has spoken to me in the way it has.
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And at the time of writing, “Zeal” has been out for one day, i may do a full run-through of my thoughts on the album as a whole at a later date, (spoiler, it’s going to be very positive) but today, for the first time in a while, i’ve felt the call to write.
So this is something that’s become something of a tradition upon the release of a new Kings Kaleidoscope album/EP.
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