Monday, July 11, 2016

Multiple Meanings

Songs can have a lot of different meanings.

Ricky Skaggs, who wrote this one, sings it about a crisis of faith within himself. Others would see it as the story of their faith journey, with all its ups and downs. A lot of conservative  evangelicals would use it as a warning non-believers, sort of in the mold of  "The goblins gonna gitcha if ya don't watch out."

Sigh.

Yeah, sometimes the people who would most like to ditch Jesus are the ones who brag the loudest about loving Him.

This is Ricky Skaggs with a deeply-introspective and haunting tune called "You Can't Shake Jesus".

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