Depeche Mode: Personal Jesus (live), covered by Johnny Cash?


I would ask that you consider the message of this song in the context of the Biblical reality concerning the person of Jesus Christ and the personal relationship He desires intensely to have with you. I recognize the band, Depeche Mode, may have had other ideas, using “Personal Jesus” as a metaphor for whatever makes you happy. However, these lyrics about connecting with Jesus by opening the line of communication to Him as your forgiver and deliverer are quite special on their own. For the purpose of FREEdom from MEdom, a personal relationship with Jesus—personal between Him and you—is deliverance from the endless search for the thing that will bring you happiness until your disappointed yet again. Please consider the lyrics in this context as you watch and listen to the video below.

Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there
Reach out and touch faith

Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer

Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith

Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Reach out and touch faith

About Steven Gledhill

My name is Steven Gledhill, a certified substance use disorder (SUD) professional of more than two decades. I am narried with three sons and two grandsons. I recognize that every person who's ever lived is subject to the human condition, valuing self and the need for control above all else. Therefore, all are inclined to be self-centered with the preoccupation to be absolutely satisfied and comfortable. The prerequisite for satisfying comfort is the control that all seek and that none attain. Furthermore, all of us are vulnerable to temptation and challenged desperately to resist it. We have all given ourselves over to human desire and have fallen to temptation and engaged in behavior that has potential for harm and so we all have experienced harm. We have all have experienced the pain and discomfort associated with unfavorable outcomes from self-centered behavior to one degree or another. It is only in relationship with God through Jesus Christ that anyone and everyone has the opportunity for restoration from the ills of self-centered thinking and behavior. Faith in the living God when realized through experience, appeals most to our intellectual sensibilities. Transformed by a renewed mind, it is reasonable to anticipate that God is involved with us becuase of his love for us. Relationship with God is reasonable and is as real as anything you have ever seen, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted. The Bible says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good. (The word, Lord, speak's to God's sovereignty; something even Albert Einstein believed about God.)
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