Don’t Bury Your Head

Ostrich's don't actually bury their heads in the ground...

Bonnie and I wrote this for the second Sunday of Advent in 2007. The Gospel reading for that Sunday was Matthew 25:14-30 and the bridge quotes Luke 3:16. This song is in a prophetic, apocalyptic, Johnny Cash type of vein. It speaks of Jesus’ unequivocal call to labor as workers in the harvest, to go into all the world, to not sit on the treasures he gives us in our baptism through his spirit, but instead to invest them in kingdom work.

Jesus does not soften the message that he will reject some who think they have been serving him and that he will take away the gifts of those who squander it. This harsh side of Jesus’ gospel shows us how passionate Jesus is about finding the lost sheep. When he gives his life to save us, he calls us to give our life to save others, and he has no patience for those who–having received his gift of grace–are too selfish to give it to others.

...but sometimes we do.

When Jesus returns, he will come to judge the living and the dead, but it is his will that none perish, so we labor in the vineyards because we want everyone to see him and to rejoice with us when he comes. In him there is grace to be found, so don’t bury your head in the ground.

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