"Let It Fade"

The other day, I was in my car, and I felt the need to just "go." Down the roads of Starkville, I went driving. With the volume on 18, I blared music and got lost in the openness of the road, the glow of headlights on the pavement before me.

A song came on, one of my favorite Jeremy Camp songs, "Let It Fade." The volume went up to 22. The words go something like this:

"Have you been walking on a surface that's uncertain?
Have you helped yourself to everything that's empty?
You can't live this way too long.
There's more than this, more than this.
Have you been standing on your own feet too long?
Have you been looking for a place where you belong?
You can rest, you will find rest.

Let this old life crumble, let it fade.
Let this new life offer be your saving grace.
Let this old life crumble, let it fade, let it fade.

Have you been holding on to what this world has offered?
Have you been giving in to all these masquerades?
It will be gone, forever gone.
It will be gone, it will be gone

Let this old life crumble, let it fade.
Let this new life offer be your saving grace.
Let this old life crumble, let it fade, let it fade.

Are you carrying the weight too much and running from the call?

Let it fade."

This song reaches a deep place within me every time that I hear it. To "Let it fade"--isn't this something we all wish that we could do? He says it so simply, yet he says it so perfectly: "Let this old life crumble, let it fade. Let this new life offer be your saving grace. Let this old life crumble, let it fade, let it fade."

Take just a minute to think about how this song relates to you. "Are you carrying the weight too much and running from the call?" That call is His plea. Let Christ reach you where you are. "Let His new life offer be your saving grace.

Let this old life crumble,

Let it fade."