I was working out yesterday, and a rather profound song came up on my iPod.  It’s a song by the now-defunct British band,The World Wide Message Tribe, from the mid 90’s. In light of all the death and destruction in the news recently, it kind of struck a cord with me.

I’m not sure what my response should be to the hurting people in Haiti, Chile, and other war-torn, weather-beaten areas of the world.  I just know that we here in America have been blessed by God in order to be a blessing to others.  To be quiet and do nothing while so many in the world suffer just seems wrong to me.

HYPOCRITE

Taking liberties
I see people dying all around me
Full of pride and evil greed
I keep quiet in a world of need
Casting darkness on the earth
Sin deceives me like a curse
The world is covered in disease
I sit back at ease

What a hypocrite I am

I’m sold as a slave to sin
What a hideous state, I keep giving in
I do not understand what I do
For what I hate to do I do
The evil deep inside of me
Has seized its opportunity
I can’t do right for doing wrong
My time will soon be gone

What a hypocrite I am