Revenge in a new light
Sometimes I can listen to a song over and over and never realize what it's actually saying. At times this is a great thing (no examples here, duh!); yet other times the song all of the sudden hits me like the recognition of the face of an old friend in the midst of a crowd... I had this experience with the song "Revenge" by Switchfoot on the plane to Austin. I couldn't get why they'd write a song about taking revenge, and then have it be this mellow, acoustic thing... Who wants to glorify revenge? But then, the lyrics finally sunk in, and I was literally moved to tears. We crucified Christ, drew his blood out, and that day God exacted his revenge on us---on Him! Vengeance most definitely is the Lord's, but somehow it makes Christ's gift so much more powerful and intimate and significant and relieving and awe-inspiring to see that His revenge was brutally thrown on Him as He was killed... for you, instead of you.