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God at the Grammy’s
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© Grammy winners Carrie Underwood & Mumford & Sons

Was God at the Grammy’s last night?

Sounds like a strange question, doesn’t it?

But that’s how I think many of us watch our award shows… looking for some mention of God to prove that He’s in the building.

Represent!

When Carrie Underwood accepts her Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance and exclaims, “To God be the glory!”, then Christ followers all over the world pump their fists like, “Yes, God is at the Staples Center!” Or when she explains in the post-show interview that if she was ever going to sing anything, it would’ve been gospel or country, and she’s mixed the two on her albums, “I sing a lot of faith-based songs”; then believers applaud like, “Represent, Carrie, Represent!”

And when the best-selling, chart-topping, top-prize-Album-of-the-Year-Grammy-Award-winning British folk rock band, Mumford and Sons, sings their multi-platinum hit, “I Will Wait for You” with lyrics of forgiveness, kneeling down and waiting, from their multi-platinum album “Babel”, Christians celebrate like we’ve won! We’re taking back the culture.

It doesn’t matter that band front-man Marcus Mumford explains to The Big Issue that “I don’t even call myself a Christian. Spirituality is the word we engage with more. We’re fans of faith, not religion”. The fact that Mumford’s parents are founders of the Vineyard Church in the UK and Ireland and raised him in a Christian home, and Mumford & Son’s music is peppered with biblical references and themes and an occasional mention of Jesus, that’s enough! “Represent, Mumford, Represent!”

God’s Everywhere

While I most appreciate references of God, blatant like Carrie’s or veiled like Mumford’s, I don’t wait for any other artist to acknowledge who God is to believe He’s present.

One of the greatest songwriters of all time with the most published songs of all time in the greatest selling book of all time, King David, breaks down God’s omnipresence in his song recorded in Psalm 139:7-12:

“Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you…”

We could continue:
If we go to the Grammys, you are there; if we make our bed at the Oscars, you are there.
If we rise in Hollywood, if we settle down in New York, even there your hand will guide us…
God is everywhere. Period.
The real question is, “What difference does it make?”

Acknowledge

Whether we acknowledge God or not, He’s still in the building. He’s the Creator of the ends of the earth. Nothing slips pass Him. He sees all and knows all.

Folks spend massive amounts of time and energy speculating if artists like Carrie’s wardrobes line up with the new dress code and/or their faith or even if Mumford & Sons has faith, but when it’s all said and done, are we asking the right questions?

I submit the following:
Instead of asking, “Is God at the Grammy’s?”
Let’s ask, “Since God is at the Grammy’s, what difference does it make in our lives?”
Frankly, those are the answers I’d love to hear!

Onward and Upward, Fam,
Naima

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