LYRICS

We Can’t Stand
Written by Aaron Tomberlin, Nathan Tomberlin, Finding Favour, & Jason Walker

LYRICS

Let It Burn
by Aaron Tomberlin

(Outro)
…. It’s only nine in the morning, I don’t care what you think

Do you know why the north star is the north star? Because it never moves. If you look at the motion captured picture of the stars, the point in the middle is the north star. No matter what season, what night, or time of night, it stays in the same place in the sky. This was basically my idea for the chorus. It’s simply poetry with music, so let the lyrics of this little poem and song mean what you want them to mean.

Original Poem

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
     How I wonder what you are.
     Up above the world so high,
     Like a diamond in the sky.

     When the blazing sun is gone,
     When he nothing shines upon,
     Then you show your little light,
     Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

     Then the traveller in the dark,
     Thanks you for your tiny spark,
     He could not see which way to go,
     If you did not twinkle so.

     In the dark blue sky you keep,
     And often through my curtains peep,
     For you never shut your eye,
     ’Till the sun is in the sky.

     As your bright and tiny spark,
     Lights the traveller in the dark.
     Though I know not what you are,
     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
     How I wonder what you are.
     Up above the world so high,
     Like a diamond in the sky.

     Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
     How I wonder what you are.
     How I wonder what you are.

SONG LYRICS

I Wonder Where You Are
by Aaron Tomberlin

(Verse)
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

(Verse)
When the blazing sun is gone,
When there's nothing he shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, through the night.

(Chorus)
When seasons change, so does the night
But your still shining there for my eye
The Summers warmth and the Falls beauty
Then the winder comes, but you never leave
Still I, I wonder where you are

(Verse)
In the dark blue sky so deep
Through my curtains often peep
For you never close your eyes
Til the morning sun does rise

(Verse)
Shining down on me in the night
Lifted up so high, in the sky
You are the diamond of my eye
I never dreamed you'd be so bright

This was important to me today. I trust in God with my life, but I’ve felt weird in my spirit all week. Maybe a little spiritual warfare along with the stresses of life- being a business owner and provider for my family and such. Every human has these anxieties and stresses. And while it’s easy for me to spiritually get over them sometimes, my humanity, my flesh, still struggles with everyday problems and stress. But, give us this day our daily bread. Not once in my life have I gone without. Not once in my life was I afraid for my life. I’m healthy. I have income. I have an amazing family. Am I only worrying about business, and stresses related to finances? Pretty much. That’s really not much to worry about. But at the same time I will say, that I have absolutely relied on God for everything in my life. I’ve come a long way in life with business, music, and my relationship with Christ. Nothing I have is a result of what I could have done without Christ, and His guidance. God has completely provided for me everyday, each day that I have lived. And I know from my own past, that He will continue to do so.

This was too long to Tweet, so I thought I’d write a small blog about what was on my heart. It’s completely human to stress, worry, and have anxieties. But that is our flesh struggling in life. Jesus felt these emotions too, as a human. But He taught us to counteract our fleshly imperfections and emotions with the guidance of God and His Holy Spirit.

LYRICS

Love’s Already Here
Written By Aaron Tomberlin

(Verse)
You been searching for the reason why
You’ve struggled for so long
It’s all the help you pushed away
So you could do it all on your own
It’s ok to believe in the things that we can’t see
It doesn’t hurt to take a knee, and have a little talk with God

(Chorus)
Please don’t be afraid, cause you are not alone
I know it’s hard to believe, but life keeps moving on
Soon enough your day will come, the pain will disappear
But don’t be afraid, because Love’s already here

(Verse)
You’ve been holding on to fortunes that’ll
Never keep you satisfied
And all the fame that you think you have
Won’t help on the otherside
But it’s ok to let it go, and finally be set free
You can still have your dreams, with faith in the unseen

(Bridge)
It’s neither now, nor never
I know it feels like forever
It was Love that forgave you
And it’s love that will save you

Jesus. Jesus. How I trust Him.
How I’ve proved him o’er and o’er (How I testify about His faithfulness over and over)
Jesus. Jesus. Precious Jesus.
O for grace to trust Him more. (I will trust Him just because His grace is sufficient)

LYRICS

What Power In A Name
Written by Aaron Tomberlin
Public Domain “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” by Louisa M. R. Stead

(Verse)
Faithful to the end
Then your Glory just begins
What power in a name

All the wind and seas obey
And the darkness can’t escape
What power in a name

(Pre)
Sin and death He overcame
So all the world would know the name of
Jesus, Jesus

(Chorus)
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust Him more!
O for grace to trust Him more!

(Verse)
He gave meaning to a cross
Salvation for the lost
What power in a name

There’s healing for the sick
There’s joy for the wretch
What power in a name

(Bridge)
O for Grace, and
O for Love
O for Peace, and
O for More

LYRICS

For God So Loved Me
Written by Aaron Tomberlin


(Verse)
Keep my heart near yours
So that I may know love
And when my faith grows weak
May I always find Your strength
Inside me


Lead me to Your will
So that I may fulfill
Who you’ve called me to be
I pray it’s through Your eyes I’ll see
Your mercy


(Chorus)
For God so loved me
He gave me all that was missing
From my heart and from my soul
Oh my God, He changed it all
For He so loved me
I, was a sinner, now reborn


(Verse)
Take away all pride
So that I cannot hide
And when I’m standing alone
I’ll sing the words of this song
On my own


(Bridge)
For He came, not to blame us for our sin
But to save all the broken who trusts in Him

The commercial is great, but scripture goes much deeper. Now here are the first few verses of Matthew 6. The whole chapter is full of wisdom, as is everything Jesus says, so please continue reading the rest on your own. I’ve put two versions of the scripture here. One from The Message and the other from the New International Version. NIV is great in translating these scriptures, but I love how The Messages relates the scripture to our modern language and lives today.

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NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV)

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

² “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. ³ But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

⁵ “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.⁶ But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. ⁷ And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. ⁸ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

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The message speaks for itself. These words come straight from the mouth and power of Jesus Christ himself. A man, a God, full of complete and perfect wisdom. This type of message is a message that we as Christians tend to forget, but these instructions are just as important as any other instructions that Jesus gives us. Jesus is preaching in a time where the Jewish high priests are confusing their ministries, laws, acts of good deeds, and religion with their relationship with God. Most of them only knew to practice their law and had no clue what a relationship with God was until Christ came. During these days, and for most of the history of earth, religion, laws of the high priests, and politics were basically one and the same. But don’t we still use our religious “good deeds” to try to gain political success even today? And by political, I don’t only mean Washington D.C. I mean jobs, careers, ministries, popularity at school, popularity at church, all politics.

How many times do we confuse our success and abundant lifestyles with our walk and relationship with Christ? How many times do we do good deeds as Christians and stand before the world to gain recognition in ourselves so that we can feel more important and get a pat on the back for what “we” have done? Too many times. Too many people forget how to be selfless. Too many Christians still forget how to be selfless. But isn’t selflessness the first and foremost discipline that Christ calls us to do as believers? Isn’t this discipline what molds and separates our character from that of a non-believer? Isn’t this discipline that which creates a strong witness? Then why do many feel the need to gain popularity and fame?

Please be careful. Do not confuse your success as your relationship with God. Just because one has become successful in a career of ministry does not mean that their walk and relationship with Christ has become stronger. Our job as Christians is to make Christ famous. Jesus wants us to have good lives, be successful, enjoy what He has blessed us with, and live abundantly… but in His name. He did not have to give us anything at all. We are not worthy of His blessings. Just the fact that you can share the message of Christ with someone and live as a believer with the promise of Christ should be all the success you need to fulfill your worth as a human.

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Matthew 5:6

The idea that something came from nothing is an idea that has been scientifically debated on and philosophically thought about for a very, very long time. But there are two ideas of nothing, and we who speak English are unfortunate to only have one word for nothing. Nothing can be a nothing where there is no equations, no matter, no space, no time, absolute nothing… no God. Nothing can also be a perfect vacuum- a state where there is absolutely no matter. To me, this is the real nothing. There cannot be an absolute nothing where there is no equations, no purpose, no space, no vacuum, no God. If you believe in absolute nothing, you do not believe in God. Nothing “is” a perfect vacuum, the absence of matter, where matter does not exist, only equations and energy. Sometimes in this state of nothing, energy can briefly transform itself into matter… creating “something”.

This week I was reading this debate and review of the book “A Universe From Nothing” by Lawrence Krauss. I’m sure that all three of the men debating the ideas of this book are much smarter than me, but I do see a problem with their debate that occurs with most all debates. One guy is a theologian, one is a philosopher, and one is a cosmologist. Some of the guys do not fully understand the other’s academics. The cosmologist is calling the philosopher stupid; the theologian is trying to describe the Christian God to a cosmologist that doesn’t really care, and the cosmologist hates the idea of religion and the Christian God from a social cliche point-of-view, having no clue who the real God of Christians really is… or even what Christianity is really about. And how could he… he’s probably never read the Bible through, doesn’t go to church or even try to have a relationship with the God that Christians know. He (Krauss) while having great ideas on the creation of the universe, is putting all religions into one category with a God and discriminating against the whole idea. It’s just chaos. But at the same time, it seems that many Christians and philosophers don’t even give science a chance to explain itself either.  And since I believe that all science comes from my transcending God, I think we should let science talk… because God can speak through anyone, and anything. Krauss is an anti-theist. He doesn’t believe in God or think that God is needed for creation to take place. And that’s a perfect fine point-of-view coming from an anti-theist, but it doesn’t disprove the existence of God… it only removes the idea that God had to physically create our universe. All Krauss did in his book is talk about the idea of “something from nothing” which has little to do with proving God or disproving God. He has a very faint understanding of God. He is basically saying God and religion are the same, according to the debate. You can listen to the debate on MP3 here.

Most cosmologist and physicist today agree that there was something before the Big Bang. In fact, many do not even believe in a Big Bang anymore. We are beginning to see that science, the universe, and God are much bigger and complex than we can imagine. Before now, people put God right before the Big Bang and said that it was God who created the Big Bang, or made the Big Bang happen from nothing. But I think we aren’t even close to finding what came before the Big Bang. I too agree that there was something before the “Big Bang”, or what we call our universe. And although I believe God is “I Am”, the beginning of all… I don’t believe that God “sparked” the Big Bang…. it’s much, much deeper than that.

One idea is that our universe is one of many that originates from the three dimensional “Branes”. Science would say that there are at least two Branes that are very close to each other, possibly many more. In between these Branes is a perfect vacuum of “nothing”. When these Branes move, they sometimes touch and collide with each other releasing energy and matter, creating a new universe. This happens all the time. Some universes might be connected, but for the most part all universes are completely separate from each other and there is no way to get from one universe to the other.

A second idea is that our universe came from a Black Whole, as did all other universes. A Black Whole is a massive star that has died and collapsed in on itself because it could not hold up it’s own mass. A Black Whole pulls in all time and matter to where the laws of physics and mathematics break down into one very small point related to the idea of eternal inflation or singularity, and explodes out the other side into a perfect vacuum, nothingness, creating a new universe. This happens all the time in our universe and other universes. So it’s possible that the multiverse is an ever-connected ”ant-hill” of universes connected by wormholes or black holes.

Yet another idea is that there was no Big Band at all, more like a Big Bounce. As a universe collapses in on itself to a point of infinity, the laws of gravity do not apply anymore. We begin looking into quantum physics (very small physics) where gravity begins to have the reverse effect and repulses itself. So in this theory, our universe came from another similar universe or a previous state of a universe that collapsed on itself by gravity until it “bounced” and repulsed itself by the quantum gravity. I think this theory might fit well into what happens inside a Black Hole.

This final theory that I am going to talk about is my personal favorite. We tend to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But if there was a singularity of nothingness, then the idea of time and before was not yet designed. There was no “before”. To understand the “beginning”, you must first understand our “end”. Our universe is expanding and will continue to disperse and expand until it cools off and begins to become a lot of nothing at all. Everything will die off and burn out until there are nothing but photons left. Photons do not have mass and cannot measure time. There must be mass to measure time. Without time you cannot have a clock or sequence of events, and without a clock the universe cannot measure how big it is- therefore cannot keep track of it’s size or it’s time. All of time, space, and mathematics is broken down into nothingness… like the beginning. So the end becomes the new beginning. Both big and small are equivalent and the end of one eon becomes the beginning of another eon.

So where does God fit into all of this. I can agree with every individual one of these theories. They all tend to make sense to me and yet none dismiss the idea of God. Even in a perfect vacuum, or nothingness, there is still energy and equations. God did not have to create the beginning. God did not have to create what we call the universe or multiverse.  God wrote the equation for it all to happen. God IS the beginning. He IS the equation. I think the problem for most people is that they don’t have a real picture of what the beginning is, or what the first equation is. And since God dwells completely outside of ALL science and is the creator of the first equation, we can NEVER understand the science of who God is. In fact, according to my perspective of God, you can never disprove the existence of God because of this. We try to describe God, and we try to personify God into a being that we can comprehend or understand. Some might believe that science can disprove or prove God. BUT GOD CREATED SCIENCE AND EXISTS OUTSIDE OF SCIENCE ITSELF. I believe that God and all of “science fact” can co-exist in perfection. And yes, it takes a little philosophy, theology, and physics for this co-existence. I do not believe you can have one without the other.

But then the average Christian asks, “What about Genesis chapter 1″? What about the seven days? Science must be wrong. Yeah I know what you’re thinking… and the blog for that is coming next.

-Aaron