What’s up everyone! It’s time to take a little ride. Each month, we are going to take it to the streets to find out how God is moving. This month, we are going to do this in a way that may be strange to you. Each person has a story to tell, and many times this is done through music. One of these types of music is Hip Hop. I personally believe there are many great stories to tell in Hip Hop even to the point of being able to create a Bible lesson out of some of the songs. So let’s roll…
This month, we are talking with KJ52 and looking at his song “You Can Still Come Back.” This is probably one of my favorite KJ songs, so I really couldn’t wait to hear some of the background about how this song came about. I called KJ at his home in sunny Florida, and he really opened up and gave me the inside story.
“This song was written at a time when someone close to me was going through the desire for worldly things. Their life was spiraling out of control, and I was broken watching this,” KJ says. “In Ecclesiastes, we see that Solomon made decisions in his life that caused him to be a part of situations that were meaningless. When we watch on our media outlets and see people such as Lindsay Lohan spiraling out of control, we shouldn’t feel anything less than broken for them.”
I thought to myself, yelp! That’s real stuff right there. How many times do I want to slip in the side door to get back into God’s graces, but I am scared? It’s similar to coming around the curve toward your house after curfew. The lights are on, and you know your parents are up waiting on you. Sometimes we need to just come back in humbly.
KJ’s “You Can Still Come Back” takes us through a girl’s life that is all over the place. In the song, we find out God is calling her name, and she hears Him say she can come back.
Next, a guy is called out in the lyrics. He is running with a crowd that is out of step, causing a ruckus and not having a care in the world. KJ’s song clearly reveals God’s message that you are never too cool or too hard to come back. Christ died on the cross for all of us.
Here are the lyrics to “You Can Still Come Back.”
She wanna go to the club have fun in the club
Find love in the club
And so she up in the club with thugs in the club
That roll in the club
And so she stroll in the club drinking it up
To the point where she buzzed
Now she been on the run forgotten the son
Plus all of his love
So she far and away she’s fallen away
But he’s calling today
He keeps calling her name she’s crawling away
Now from all of his grace
Plus it’s all been the same she’s fallen ashamed
From going her ways
So she goes and she prays she hopes she can change
She’s hearing him say
Anyplace that you are you can still come back
You ain’t never too far you can still come back
All you gotta do is call you can still come back
Even if it seems hard you can still come back
He wanna run with the crowd he runs with em now
While they running about
They having fun and they bounce they go up in the house
Get drunk and they loud
Now they pouring it out they pour in there mouth they
Pouring it down
He’s joining them now he’s enjoying it now
Cuz he’s boys with them now
See he knows what is right he was rolling with Christ
But they rolled in his life
Now he goes every night he goes and he fights
He’s rolling the dice
You see he’s chosen the life but deep in his mind
Man his soul isn’t right
He keeps closing his eyes going so blind
Trying to run from the light but…
So you thinking you far you thinking it’s hard
You thinking your scarred
Now you thinking you’d call but thinking that God
He would put up a wall
Don’t think that all cause the big and the small
He’s there for us y’all
Right there if you fall he’s there with his arms
So hear him when he calls saying…
There is a story in the Bible of a son that decided to leave his father for things he thought would be better. He left for a life of living it up and a life that brings glory only to one’s self.
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1) In Luke 15:11, we see the father loved his son. He gave him his share of the property. The key to this verse is the son’s understanding of his father’s love for him.
2) Living recklessly never will produce a positive outcome. As the son went and lived it up doing whatever he wanted, he slowly was killing himself from the inside out to the point of eating with the pigs. It is clear God was showing him he was not appreciative of what his father had given to him.
3) After being beat down so far that he had no place to turn other than his father, Scripture says he came back humbly to his father. Before he could say a word, his father ran to meet him. He knew his sone was returning home, so he embraced him and kissed him.
KJ describes this story by saying he went from boldness (leaving and turning against his father) to brokenness (sleeping and eating with the pigs) to belief (that anyplace you are, you can still come back to the father).
Check out KJ52’s website and Torrey Garrison’s website.
