Music Monday...Late

Sorry my post is late...

This is one of my favorite songs. The words in this song a so true to life.

"Where I belong" by Building 429

Sometimes it feels like I'm watching from the outside

Sometimes it feels like I'm breathing but am I alive

I will keep searching for answers that aren't here to find

All I know is I'm not home yet

This is not where I belong

Take this world and give me Jesus

This in not where I belong

So when the walls come falling down on me

And when I'm lost in the current of a raging sea

I have this blessed assurance holding me

All I know is I'm not home yet

This is not where I belong

Take this world and give me Jesus

This in not where I belong

When the earth shakes I wanna be found in You

When the light fade I wanna be found in You

All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This in not where I belong
[x2]


Where I belong, where I belong
Where I belong, where I belong

The story behind this song

Written by Jason on 3/24/11

“Where I Belong” was written out of the thought process of “where is our home”? If there was a theme to my life over the last year it would be “this place is not our home”.

Why would I say that? Well, because in the last couple of years I’ve watched a lot of people I respect make major mistakes that had a huge impact on their lives.  

Why would people who have everything choose to do things that destroy the blessing they live under? The more I think about it, the more I realize that the “good life” just doesn’t exist here on earth. Nothing we have, earn, are given, or could buy will ever keep us from desiring something more. This is proven by the people who have it all but give it all away in an effort to get more.

It was echoed in my own life as I began to realize that I wasn’t so different from the people who had made such huge mistakes. We’re always in a fight to remember why we exist and where we belong. It’s an all out war to stay on the path. If you and I think we’re above the BIG mistakes, we’re kidding ourselves.

This song reminds me that some day the work that God began in me will be completed. In the meantime it reminds me to say “take this world and give me Jesus”. When I live by that phrase, everything is different and suddenly the things I think I need become worthless. The coolest thing about this song is the comfort that it has brought to a lot of people as they’ve had to face our greatest fear in life: death. A song that I wrote about how to live has also become a song of assurance for many people close to us. We hope it serves as a reminder to all. This world is not our home. In the arms of our Creator is where we belong.

http://building429.com/news/2011/3/24/listen-to-the-sound-the-story-behind-where-i-belong.html