Nation music artist Granger Smith made headlines this previous week when he introduced he was stepping away from his music profession to pursue a lifetime of ministry at his native church.
Smith mentioned that his life story is one he’s at all times dreamed of getting, however he’s able to step away and provides all of it up.
“It is a story of a man that, you realize, had what I’ve at all times dreamed of getting. And I am turning it again over. I am turning it again in for a life on the native church. However I consider that that is what I’m referred to as to do,” he defined on “Sunday Night time In America.”
Host Trey Gowdy requested Smith how he was capable of get by one of many worst moments of his life when his 3-year-old son River tragically died in a drowning accident in 2019. “For some, that makes them abandon their religion and for some that makes it stronger. How did this make your religion stronger?”
Granger Smith and his spouse Amber misplaced their 3-year-old son River in a drowning accident in 2019. ((Screengrab/ Sunday Night time In America))
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“I want I knew the formulation for whether or not or not that is going to make you bitter or higher. I can’t take credit score myself for the novel transformation that the Lord did in my life by this tragedy. And generally, you realize, when that soil is cultivated and we’ve to dig deep and we won’t discover it inside ourselves- the Lord is available in and reveals himself in a really profound approach, in a approach that I can’t take any credit score for,” Smith responded. “What I do know is now I’ve one thing to do with this. Now that this reward was given to me in a time, the darkest tragedy of our life. Now I’ve a objective to exit and share this message of what occurred to me for different folks which can be in all probability going by the identical factor.”
Smith mentioned he has been requested why he would surrender his present platform altogether as a substitute of utilizing it to unfold his religion and the way God has helped his household of their darkest hour. “[I’ve’ debated that in my own head,” he shared.
Granger Smith and his family in 2018. ((Screengrab/ Sunday Night In America))
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“It’s like, what? You got the stage. Why not just travel the world and sing country music and be a light at a dark place and people come and pile in these venues, and you could talk about Jesus and you could talk about your faith. You could sing a few hymns. Isn’t that the better choice? And what I could not reconcile with that is that when Jesus said if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. That self-denial is something I struggle with, in country music, where instead every night I’m getting up on the stage and seeking glory, seeking applause, seeking people to exalt me. And that’s just not what we’re called to do as followers. And I could not reconcile those two things together,” Smith added.
“And I think God looks at us and says, ‘Don’t tell me how I get my glory,’ you know? And so it’s so easy for us to go, ‘Oh, I know how I’m going to glorify God. My way. And I’ll also be rich and famous at the same time.’ I couldn’t reconcile that. And I want to say it’s important to say too that I’m not talking to anyone else that might be in entertainment or in music. I’m not saying what anyone else should do. This is something that I struggled with internally because I struggled with exalting myself and seeking that praise. And that’s something I needed to strip through sanctification away from me”
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Smith’s final tour “Like a River” kicked off on April 13 and is expected to end on Aug. 26.
