Jonathan Cain Praises God For Inspiring His Music

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Jonathan Cain Praises God For Inspiring His Music

2022-09-06T12:38:15+01:00

By Church News

A Christian, Jonathan Cain in a new interview has said that his most popular songs, including Faithfully and Open Arms, were inspired by God and, in hindsight, reference God.Jonathan Leonard Friga, known professionally as Jonathan Cain, is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter best known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Journey.Cain is attributed with writing Don’t Stop Believin’ (1981), Faithfully (1983), Open Arms (1981) and Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (1983) – songs that remain popular today, some four decades after their release.Cain said he didn’t realize until after his father’s death in 1987 that God was behind the songs.“When my father passed, I was devastated,” Cain said in a new video for I Am Second, a non-profit organization that spotlights well-known Christians. “I didn’t think I would be able to carry on. I always wrote for him. I said everything I did, every note I play, I can trace back to my father.“And then God – His voice came to me [as] I sat weeping on the piano. God said, ‘No, Jon, it’s been Me. It’s Me, Jon. It’s always been Me through him. I am the source. I am where it comes from Jon. You’ve pleased me.’ And I went, ‘Oh, man. How did I miss that?'”Several of the songs have a double meaning, Cain said.“I’m forever yours, Lord, faithfully, Lord, I come to you with open arms,” he said, referencing the 1981 song.“It opened my eyes to like, the transcendence of [the] Father reaching down to his son through his natural father,” he said.Meanwhile, Cain also discusses his childhood and teen years in the new video. He praises God for protecting him during two near-death events as a child – first when he nearly drowned and later when he survived a 1958 Catholic school fire in Chicago that killed 92 students and three nuns.ALSO READ Christian Boxer Oleksander Usyk Praises God