I conclude the week with what I have called the greatest hymn of the 20th century: "I Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For" by U2.
Again, I hear God singing the beginning of this song to the world. It speaks to God's commitment to us and what God has done, and continues to do. It also speaks to the heartbreak that God feels with the continuation of suffering, pain, war, struggle and sin in our world. Certainly, God hasn't found what God is looking for yet ...
The final verse is our response ... our belief in what God has done and then our agreement that there is more to do in our world to get it close to the kingdom of God.
We are now in this together -- God and the faithful!
I Still Haven't Found What I Am Looking For
U2
I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run, I have crawled
I have scaled the city walls
Said it was
Only to be with you
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire
I have spoken with the tongue of angels
I have held end of the velvet
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a star
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
I believe in kingdom come
When all the colors were bleeding as one
Bleeding the one
Yes, I’m still running
He broke the bounds, he loose the chains
Carried the cross of my shame
Broke my shame
You know I believed it
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
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