OPEN SKY

There’s an old saying: “The heavens are brass.” It was used to describe the times when it feels like your prayers are just bouncing off the ceiling and falling on the floor unheard. Times when it seems like God must be a million miles away, or there’s at least an impenetrable wall between you and Him. Ever felt that way? I sure have. I’ve found the times I felt like that the most, though, is when I’m being disobedient and holding out on God on an issue I don’t want to give in to Him on. The Bible says there’s a point at which God just “gives us over” to our own sin and lets us do what we want and experience the consequences of it. Separation from Him is one of those consequences. If you’re used to talking to God all the time, and sensing him near you’ll notice when it feels like a one way conversation!

Open Sky was a phrase that came to me one day as I got up off my knees. I had been having a “heavens are brass” experience for a while at that point and just finished truly making it right and repenting. As I got up, I suddenly felt 200 percent better! It had been long enough that I forgot what a clean slate with God felt like! Wow! What an awesome thing to have no unresolved issues between you and God! I felt totally free again and a weight I had been carrying around unnecessarily because of my own stubornness was finally lifted .The sin that had come between me and God had been wiped away by Jesus. I felt awesome. I thought, hey, this should be a song! Ha-ha. Being free like that is an incredible feeling. I think this is a really happy song. Thats why we left in that laugh that got recorded somewhere along the way... I thought it just set the tone. It's a feel-good song. We need those!

There are some other themes running through this song similar to captured again. ‘I give it all, lay it all down I want to see Your face” is an obvious similarity. But the other thought in this song I wanted to make mention of is the line “It’s in freedom I, give you my whole life, and live it just to thank You for this open sky.” We live for God not to EARN forgiveness or his love. He gives us that freely. Then in turn, we are motivated to give it all back to him with our lives to show our faith. Faith without actions is dead. We serve God as a response to His love that gives us freedom. What an awesome thing to be in open love relationship with the creator of the universe, and give our lives back to him!