If God is Love?

Stand Up Comedy

by Bono

from U2's album, "No Line On The Horizon"

Love love love love love…

Love love love love love…

I got to stand up and take a step

You and I have been asleep for hours

I got to stand up

The wire is stretched in between our two towers

Stand up in this dizzy world

Where a lovesick eye can steal the view

I’m gonna fall down if I can’t stand up

For your love

Love love love love love…

Stand up, this is comedy

The DNA lottery may have left you smart

But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart

I can stand up for hope, faith, love

But while I’m getting over certainty

Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady

Out from under your beds

C’mon ye people

Stand up for your love

Love love love love love…

I gotta stand up to ego but my ego’s not really the enemy

It’s like a small child crossing an eight lane highway

On a voyage of discovery

Stand up to rock stars,

Napoleon is in high heels

Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas

Out from under your beds

C’mon ye people

Stand up for your love

Love love love love love…

God is love

And love is evolution’s very best day

Soul rockin’ people moving on

Soul rockin’ people on and on

C’mon ye people

We’re made of stars

C’mon ye people

Stand up then sit down for your love

Love love love love love…

Love love love love love…

This is my favorite song off the new U2 album...not only is it a catchy guitar riff, but the lyrical call to wake up and make a stand drew me. If God is love...and love is creations highest ideal...then why are the followers of Jesus so tentative? My favorite line is "Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady". What a great word picture of a believer trying to ever so gently help God across the road...as if He is some frail, weak old lady...in contrast to the bold call of the song...to "stand up for your love". If God is love...then why are we asleep...so distracted...so tentative? Shouldn't that love be boldly proclaimed...confidently lived out...and actively expressed? Isn't that something to stand for? At ECHO we think so, do you?

be God's!

Brian O

Lead Pastor dude, ECHO