A friend of mine once remarked wryly that I ‘have a song for every occasion.’ I don’t know about that, but as I was listening to the sermon on the atoning cross last night, I couldn’t help thinking about a song (from 1993, as it turns out!) called ‘Cross of Gold’. Thanks to the wonders of Google and the Internet, I listened to it again today, with quite a lot of nostalgia if I am honest (not to mention raised eyebrows at the video, which I’ve never seen before!)
The song looks at this symbol of Christianity and asks why people wear a cross of gold:
“What’s your line?
Tell me why you wear your cross of gold.
State of mind
Or does it find a way into your soul?” (‘Cross of Gold’, Michael W. Smith)
It goes on to ask:
“For some it’s simply something to wear around your neck
Just a chain
Jewellery
Is it decoration?
Is it an icon
Or proclamation?
An icon of what?
What?
For some it’s simply something to wear around your neck
Just a chain
It means a lot more than that to me.”
‘Cross of Gold’, Michael W. Smith