The "Good News" We Seek
A young, indie-pop band called Ocean Park Standoff has recently released a hit single entitled “Good News.” With catchy beats and lyrics, the song draws in its listeners from the opening notes. Still, there is a greater value to this song than its potential to climb music charts. About the motivation for writing the song, one of the band members remarks, "It was about our daily lives and breakups and work issues and the fact that everything coming at us from the outside world was like, 'It's only getting worse!' because that's what sells." Indeed, the human heart cries out for good news in the midst of the mundane and in the midst of suffering. The answer, however, does not lie in what we can do for ourselves, in the power or positive thinking. This song should remind all of us that we need more than that. This song is a cry for a deeper relationship with the Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Many of the lyrics point the listener in ...