Romantic Music and Repentance

It's surprising how often love songs, songs about romantic love, can serve as halfway decent analogies for God's love.

I decided to listen to the radio as I washed a few dishes this evening, and the first music I heard was the chorus of Maroon 5's song "Just Wait":

Wait, can you turn around, can you turn around?
Just wait, can we work this out, can we work this out?
Just wait, can you come here please? 'Cause I wanna be with you.

The funny thing is, I can definitely imagine God saying those things to me. Though He'd probably use different words, He'd certainly try to convey the same message. God wants all of us to "turn around" through repentance so we can "work out [our] salvation" (Philippians 2:12) and come back to Heaven, where God lives, so we can be with Him. It's almost perfect.

Of course, the song isn't a truly perfect analogy. In the song, the singer is trying to convince the person he's singing to to let him apologize; however, it's not God who needs to apologize, but us. Perhaps we can allow the POV of the song to shift from God to us, but it's easier to accept that the song isn't a perfect analogy. No analogy is.

Still, as I listened to this song a little while ago, it felt seemed like it almost could have been a message from God. It's not word-for-word what He would have said, and the actual verses are nowhere near what God would say, but the chorus seemed like the kind of thing God would want to say to me, which is probably why He did. God can speak to us through music, and not all of that music has to be hymns. God can speak to us in any number of ways, including, occasionally, through love songs.