Bodies - Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams is back with his new single called ‘Bodies’ which was first heard on the ‘Chris Moyles’ show and then performed live on the X-Factor. For the past month his song has been played on the radio, on TV, in shops, almost everywhere you go, and the line, “And your Jesus really died for me, Then Jesus really tried for me” is heard throughout the song.

The song seems to explore the spiritual confusion that is going on in Robbie’s mind. He sings of the bodhi tree under which Buddha supposedly gained his revelations; he sings of the image conscious narcissism that only wants to ‘look good naked’ and of how he loves living like a deity. Yet time and again the line comes, ‘And your Jesus really died for me’.

The bible teaches that Jesus Christ went to the cross and really died as a sacrifice for sin; he went to the cross to pay the price for sin that men and women could never pay; he bore the punishment that men and women deserve. The bible teaches that, ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved’. Saved from Sin and death because of what Jesus did.

As Robbie’s song continues he seems to struggle with the idea of Jesus dying for people and ends with a line of rejection, “Jesus didn’t die for you, what do you want? Jesus didn’t die for you, what are you on?”

Robbie Williams’ song really just points up the struggle going on in the heart of man. He is more than simply a body located in space and time and he knows it. He has everything a young man could want, fame, fortune and world wide acclaim and yet he seems sad and troubled. He reminds me a little bit (just a little bit mind you) of the Rich Young man. He came searching for Jesus, but went away sad for he wanted his money more than a Saviour. I sense as Robbie concludes that ‘Jesus didn’t die for you’, he also walks away sad in his soul.

I have no idea what’s going on in Robbie Williams mind; but if those who listen to his music; or happen to hear it while driving their cars or while doing their shopping start to ponder the idea that Jesus might just have died for them, then that’s no bad thing!

So thanks Robbie, and Jesus might very well have died for you!