#LDAT40 Day 11, Heroes, Alesso

It's stunning how God can work even in the American Top Forty.  On the Valentine's day 2015 this song was ranked number 11 right after Lilly Wood and the Prick's Prayer in C.  While Prayer in C is in the tradition of the lament, electric dance song, Heroes (we could be) takes a more optimistic approach.  I think God wanted us to consider these songs together.

In my last devotion we considered the problem of theodicy, or why a loving God permits the manifestation of evil in creation.  I offered three of what I thought were less than satisfying answers to this mystery.  Struggling with this question and other seeming unanswerable questions is the first part of a classic Lamentation. "Why are You doing this God?" And the last part of a Lament typically lets go of the mystery and offers praise.  Basically a Lamentation is like a good cry that you just need to get out so you can get on with your life.  Heroes is the kind of song that gives glory to God and see and opportunity to join God in mighty acts of salvation that take place every day in the midst of quotidian pain and suffering.  

Day 10 of this devotion was the first part of a Lament.  Day 11 is the next.  What do you think?