Will you stand for Jesus at all costs? Will you die for Him if He so wills it? He stood for us and paid the ultimate price. Who do you stand for?

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Recently I was surfing the blogs on wordpress and came across a great blog by an inspiring and talented young woman in her own right. I was browsing through some of her posts and came across a video on youtube, of a young man named Josiah Leming who is 18 and lives in his car and travels around the country playing his original music. He was recently on American Idol and cut before the top 24, and after watching some of his performances on the show I can see partially why. Not because he isn’t amazingly talented, I think he got a bit overconfident, and truthfully his original music is what he does best I think. I’m not really a big American Idol fan much anymore anyway. However I wanted to share a few of Josiah’s songs on this post as they are truly deep and he is a very talented musician. From what I gather from his biography, is that he is almost completely self-taught musician. He dropped out of school and travels around the country playing his music. Take a listen for yourself and tell me the lyrics don’t move you, look at his passion for the music.

This is by far my favorite of Josiah’s songs:

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Another great original song that he wrote. Just watch him play, look at how passionate he is for his music.

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Another beautiful song…about a melody. You can tell that he truly is in love with music.

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And yet another passionate original.

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Visit his myspace page and find out more about him and pray as I will that God uses Josiah to bring glory to Him. I pray that Josiah will continue to create more beautiful and inspiring music that is deep and carries a true passion from the heart, a stark contrast from the materialistic, and boring music by many popular artists today.