If
you have please consider yourself part of the family!!! The family of
humans. We encounter our humanity every day it seems. Some of us even
encounter it multiple times per day. This doesn't make us accident
prone or a jinx, and let's face it karma is something that doesn't
really even belong in a believer's vocabulary. It seems as humans we
were born to make mistakes.....
In 1979 The Human
League would release their first album. Reproduction featured
an all male lineup of instrumentalists and vocalists and was one of the
reasons the band became known as part of an eclectic group that would be
the originators of what would eventually become Electronica.
Aided by the new technological advances in synthesizers and drum
machines, The Human League would begin a musical career that is still
going today.
The peak of The Human League's popularity came in 1981, when their album Dare
was released in the United Kingdom. It would set the standard for the
'80s synthpop sound and be the standard by which all future Human League
albums would be judged. Their biggest hit was the last track to the
album and one the band felt was the weakest. "Don't You Want Me" went
to #1 in December of 1981 with the support of its heavily rotated MTV
music video. Dare and "Don't You Want Me" would continue to reign on the charts bolstered by its release in the United States in 1982.
Reeling from the success of Dare, the band released the EP Hysteria, to
keep fans plugged into The Human League while they worked on their next
full length album. After some tensions during the production of Dare, The Human League tapped Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam, fresh off of their success with Janet Jackson's Control
album, to produce the follow up. In doing so, the band gave up alot of
control over song selection and royalties as some of the tracks were
written by Jam and Lewis. Crash released in 1986. While Crash provided the #1 track "Human", the album failed to live up to the
expectations of fans and critics alike.
"In
the beginning, God created the heavens and earth." This is how the
Bible begins what many believe is the "human" story. Genesis 1 is
familiar to many around the world as the story of creation. Man is
created in verse 27. In verse 31 the Bible tells us that God called all
that He had created, "good". Imagine that. The God of perfection
called us and everything else in this world "good". As we look around
the landscape of our world, I'm not so sure we can call it "good" in the
same terms that God defined it at creation. Yes, there are many good
aspects to our world, yet, they are all a dull image in comparison to
that one time in our history where God called it all "good". So what happened? As the
song says, we're only humans right? After the
expulsion from Eden, God never refers to humans as "good" ever again.
This is tragic. Perhaps this is where the phrase "we're only human"
originated. While reading the creation and the fall stories, it would
be easy for us to judge Adam and Eve for their poor judgement and blame the enemy for his
temptations. But we must realize that each day of our lives, we have
the opportunity to do our part in reclaiming Eden. Paul calls this the "renewing of our minds" in Romans 12:1-3.
Each day we must realize that the reason Adam and Eve sinned was
because they took their eyes off of the creator and placed their eyes on
themselves. Every day we must realize that while the Bible is a
historical, poetical, and prophetical piece of literature, it is
primarily the story of reclaiming Eden through the sacrifice of Jesus. It enables us, as we read it, to realize God's standard of what is "good". Then base our lives on that standard. Yes, we will make mistakes but because the Bible is the story of God's redemptive power, we are still loved and forgiven if we will only believe......in-spite of the fact that we're only
human....
'Til Tuesday,
Serving HIM by serving you,
Randy
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