Mud Cookies?

I couldn't believe my eyes.  We are in the middle of a video editing project for a non profit in Haiti, and there they were, a plate of mud cookies. Now, I thought the presenter was kidding when he told me that those cookies were actually made from oil and mud, left to bake in the sun.  Of course I had to know what they were used for, and then the big shock came when he said, "they eat them to take the edge off the hunger pains." You have got to be kidding?  No, he said some people in Haiti are so poor this is what they eat between days of not eating anything. 

Mud cookies, made out of the dust of the earth, looking like regular flour cookies, but having no nutritional value. These mud cookies illustrate for me what people are being feed in many spiritual circles are every week. They are passed out as sermons of significance, but really the content has as much spiritual significance  as the mud cookies do.

I was in a worship setting the other night, where the worship leader was leading a crowd of people singing songs about running to the arms of Jesus, and laying our head between his shoulders.  The tune was really catchy, but resembled mud cookies as far as the content. I dislike most worship songs, because they really don't go anywhere in drawing me closer to God,  Some songs do honor God and say so in their lyrics, but don't go far enough in bringing the truth home to the heart. Some songs are even emotional in nature, but again say little about God other than He loves us.

I think music should challenge us, and take us to another level of expectancy with God. I think songs should have a prophetic nature to them, reminding us of what God's word tells us about His plan for His return. I hear no songs on the theme of His return, His reign from Jerusalem, and the signs of His return.  You have to go back to the 70's to pick up those kinds of themes in songs.  Why?  Good question, I wish someone would tell me. In fact, did you know that 1/3 of the scriptures are about prophetic themes, yet we hear no sermons and we sing no songs about it. Perhaps those feeding the flock with sermon ideas and singing the melody's have little to offer from God, so they offer mud cookies as a substitute. 

I sense you don't agree, well, all I ask you to do is be honest when you sing the next worship song, or listen to the next sermon.  Ask yourself, in light of eternity, does this really bring me closer to Christ, or closer to my emotions?  I think you might be surprised.

Keeping it honest and truthful...K

Mud Cookies from Haiti.