{"id":12918,"date":"2017-01-28T08:47:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2017-01-28T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T14:00:32","slug":"saturday-short-give-this-world-back-to-god-reba-mcentire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=12918","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Short &#8211; Give This World Back to God &#8211; Reba McEntire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Sing-It-Now-Reba-McEntire-Amazon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12919\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Sing-It-Now-Reba-McEntire-Amazon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Sing-It-Now-Reba-McEntire-Amazon.jpg 522w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Sing-It-Now-Reba-McEntire-Amazon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Sing-It-Now-Reba-McEntire-Amazon-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01N9IB3QH?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=debmillswrite-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=B01N9IB3QH\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whew! Just had my coffee and was fixing to get up from the computer and getting on with the day&#8230;and an intriguing video came up. As I watched the video and listened to the words, my heart felt like it went up in my throat, and tears flowed. This is no sentimental, puppy dog, country music song. It was a commentary on our lives today&#8230;and what the solution is for the what&#8217;s wrong with our world.<\/p>\n<p>I may be buying my first Reba McEntire album. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01N9IB3QH?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=debmillswrite-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=B01N9IB3QH\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sing It Now &#8211; Songs of Faith &amp; Hope <\/em><\/a>(Release February 2017) is McEntire&#8217;s first Gospel album. 2 CDs. One is described as songs from her childhood &#8211; hymns she sang in church growing up. The other CD is comprised of new songs from various songwriters. <em>Back to God<\/em>, written by Randy Houser and Dallas Davidson, is mesmerizing. View it right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S9q-08aTNh8\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reba McEntire - Back To God (Official Music Video)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S9q-08aTNh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you looked around, have you heard the sound<br \/>\nOf Mama&#8217;s cryin&#8217;<br \/>\nOr do you turn away when you see the face<br \/>\nOf the innocent dyin&#8217;<br \/>\nIn these darkest days are you not afraid<br \/>\nThat it&#8217;s too late?<\/p>\n<p>You gotta get down on your knees, believe<br \/>\nFold your hands and beg and plead<br \/>\nYou gotta keep on praying<\/p>\n<p>You gotta cry, rain tears of pain<br \/>\nPound the floor and scream His name<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause we&#8217;re still worth saving<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t go on like this and live like this<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t love like this<br \/>\nWe gotta give this world back to God<\/p>\n<p>Have you lost a love? Do you feel like giv&#8217;n up?<br \/>\nHas your heart been broken?<br \/>\nAre your kids okay? Will they come home safe?<br \/>\nAnd do you lie there hoping?<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can make a wish, you can knock on wood<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> It won&#8217;t do no good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You gotta get down on your knees, believe<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Fold your hands and beg and plead<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> You gotta keep on praying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You gotta cry, rain tears of pain<br \/>\nPound the floor and scream His name<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause we&#8217;re still worth saving<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t go on like this and live like this<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t love like this<br \/>\nGotta give this world back to God<\/p>\n<p>You gotta get down on your knees, believe<br \/>\nFold your hands and beg and plead<br \/>\nYou gotta keep on praying<\/p>\n<p>You gotta cry, rain tears of pain<br \/>\nPound the floor and scream His name<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause we&#8217;re still worth saving<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t go on like this and live like this<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> We can&#8217;t love like this<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> You can hope the best, make a wish, the only answer is<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> We give this world back to God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gotta give this world back to God<br \/>\nGive this world back to God*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Reba-McEntire-Wide-Open-Country.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12921\" src=\"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Reba-McEntire-Wide-Open-Country.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Reba-McEntire-Wide-Open-Country.jpg 793w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Reba-McEntire-Wide-Open-Country-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Blog-Reba-McEntire-Wide-Open-Country-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wideopencountry.com\/reba-mcentire-back-to-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wide Open Country<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did struggle with one line, at first: &#8220;We&#8217;re still worth saving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is too much emphasis today on us and me&#8230;rather than He. God. I watch the mean-spirited attacks on one another in media today (&#8220;social&#8221; and mainstream)&#8230;and am dumbfounded. Especially when the attacks are Christian against Christian. Not how Jesus taught us. However&#8230;and it&#8217;s a big however &#8211; God has placed value on us&#8230;on all of us. It&#8217;s not what we think about ourselves (our significance, our political ideology, our messaging eloquence&#8230;whateva). It&#8217;s what He says about us&#8230;and what He is willing to do for us.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It is rare indeed for anyone to die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. <span class=\"highl\">But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.\u00a0<\/span>Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him! &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/romans\/5-8.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Romans 5:7-9<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the magnificence of the Gospel. This is what brings tremendous hope to any struggle&#8230;including the struggle that we, in this world, find ourselves at this time in history.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;on with the day with this reminder that our battle won&#8217;t be won in social media or the pain and bitterness of our hearts&#8230;but on our knees with hearts of faith&#8230;in a faithFUL God.<\/p>\n<p>Postscript: It would be easy to just get on out the door, with hearts resonating with the message of this song&#8230;without taking the words not just to heart&#8230;but to our knees. I needed that P.S. and am on it.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/randyhouser\/backtogod.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lyrics to <em>Back to God<\/em> &#8211; Songwriters: Randy Houser &amp; Dallas Davidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countrymusicnation.com\/reba-mcentire-turns-back-to-god-in-breathtaking-new-music-video?a=mr&amp;var=RebaBackToVid-CR&amp;utm_campaign=rebabacktovid&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=original-cr-mr&amp;utm_content=reba+mcentire\" target=\"_blank\">Reba McEntire Turns &#8216;<em>Back to God<\/em>&#8216; In Breathtaking New Music Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Amazon Whew! Just had my coffee and was fixing to get up from the computer and getting on with the day&#8230;and an intriguing video came up. As I watched the video and listened to the words, my heart felt like it went up in my throat, and tears flowed. This is no sentimental, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=12918\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday Short &#8211; Give This World Back to God &#8211; Reba McEntire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,910,2556,33,263,432,761,887,3574,1102,1002,32,203,946,3748],"tags":[4216,4213,51,1836,530,4215,677,2032,3839,648,4214,4210,4212,1108,4211,4217],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-gospel","category-grief-and-loss","category-inspired","category-lives-full-of-god","category-music","category-redeeming-restoring","category-remembering","category-saturday-short","category-social-media","category-transformational","category-walk-with-god","category-word-of-god","category-worship","category-youtube-channel","tag-back-to-god","tag-dallas-davidson","tag-faithful","tag-god","tag-gospel","tag-gospel-songs","tag-hope","tag-hymns","tag-mainstream-media","tag-prayer","tag-randy-houser","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-sing-it-now","tag-social-media","tag-songs-of-faith","tag-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pauPAB-3mm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12928,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}