Crae's Message for You

I like this song by the raper Lecrae because of the truth that he  reveals. He says that the reason he is writing this song is so that other people will hear the truth-- he did it for you.

In the first verse Lecrae sets up a scene. He describes a poor single mother, who has a son that is headed in the wrong direction. The boy is drinking by the age of 10, he has seen many people die. In fact, by the age of 25, only 15 years from where he is, everyone he has known and looks up to is either in prison or in the ground. What a SAD picture. He explains from this child's perspective how at all of the funerals people are asking why God did not help them. And then he clarifies that these people who are angry with God for "taking" someone away from them have NEVER come to God before. "Every other day they concerned with the world and consumed in sin." How many of us are concerned with ourselves, are living in our own selfish sin, and then when something bad happens we run to God and say "WHY DID YOU LET THIS HAPPEN TO ME?" I pray that we see what we are doing to ourselves. Lecrae explains that we are "all dirty/ That's why we need a Holy God to wash us." AMEN!

During the chorus, Lecrae again emphasizes that he is singing and writing this song for you, and for me. So that we can see that we are all dirty, we are all messed up, we have all sinned and fallen short, but we can all be cleansed if we accept the One that we need-- Christ. He is showing us the pain he has gone through so that we can understand that we all need to change. He then tells that he has accepted that change, and he will "never be the same again".

Now he is directly talking about himself. He says he would talk under his bed so that his mom would not be able to "hear some of the things" he said. Next he gives credit to her, she was doing everything she could, working and being a single mother. But he was a "latchkey home alone for hours". We all know that when we are alone, Satan really tempts us. Our flesh desires things and it is when no one else is watching that we can satisfy that. My favorite lines are "I was a drug baby big momma dragged me to church/ Hated ever minute of it but she prayed it would work". Praise the Lord! Obviously it did work, he now knows Christ and is spreading the good news. He goes on to explain that he did not know his dad, and this got him down-- something that many people can identify with. His mom beat him in order "to keep [him] alive" because of "legalistic lies". He was agnostic. But he was not satisfied. He was searching for truth. Then, someone told him that God had a bigger plan for his life. He names a few famous people who are "Christian", and he does not question whether or not they are. He simply prays that they are really listening-- perhaps to what God has for them. In the wrap up, Lecrae explains that it is hard to grow up without an example of a Godly man-- how true! Then he shares the joyful part of his testimony. A single man shared the good news, told him that he was living in sin and that Christ had died so that he could be set free, and he was indeed.

Out of all the Lecrae songs, this is definitely one of my favorites. I love his heart. I love that he is spreading his testimony in a way that youth can relate to him. I hope that he is able to touch their lives. That he may be that James White to someone else. I praise and thank God that He has anointed men like Lecrae to be Godly and testify for him!

PRAISE THE LORD!