We Are Young...

So, I LOVE the song "We Are Young" by Fun. It's the beat and energy that get me. When I listen to it, it is very uplifting and motivational. I get that Braveheart feeling like I want to charge and go all out..... the only problem is what it is actually saying.

Tonight, We are young 
So let's set the world on fire 
We can burn brighter 
Than the sun

Awesome Lyrics right? But the whole song is singing about one night in a bar. Check these out:

Maybe we could find new ways to fall apart 
But our friends are back So let's raise the cup 
'Cause I found someone to carry me home

And that last line - it's like yelling it out. Like it's a big climax line in my opinion. And yet, it's about finding a ride home. A few more:

Give me a second, I 
I need to get my story straight 
My friends are in the bathroom 
Getting higher than the Empire State 
My lover she is waiting for me Just across the bar, 

It's so easy to see underlying ideas in the song. We are all made for adventure. We are all made for something larger than ourselves. Let's set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun. All of us have that inside of us. And when it is lived out apart from Christ, we waste it on things as useless as a drunken night in a bar. Our efforts are on trying to do something epic and we misplace them on trying to have the greatest party. So great we remember nothing the next morning. We try to make the most money. Have the sweetest ride. Sleep with the most girls.

All that chasing after meaning, after something GREAT and bigger than ourselves. Chasing after something... all that effort; it's all meant to be directed towards Jesus. In taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. You will never find a story so big, so epic, so exciting and full of adventure as following Jesus Christ. And until you start chasing Christ and His glory, all other efforts will fall short of satisfying your soul and you'll find yourself back in the same place, day after day and night after night, trying to fill a void in your life that will never be satisfied.

So let's take these lines, apply them to taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. Let's live with reckless abandonment b/c in Christ we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Let's combine them like this and go out singing:

let's set the world on fire 
We can burn brighter
Than the sun

The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning
It's time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes

Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name