Hoping no one will ever notice how scared you are or uncomfortable you are in your own skin? As a matter of fact, The King of Rock-n-Roll, Elvis Presley himself struggled tremendously with his identity, his role, his purpose and his beliefs. The only child in a loving family and a frequent churchgoer, Elvis was searching.
The only child in a loving family and a frequent churchgoer, Elvis was searching. Searching for meaning. He knew he was meant for more, but his fame became bigger than himself. This soulful singer/songwriter loved his family, God and others.
“I never expected to be anybody important. Maybe I’m not now, but whatever I am, whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me,” Elvis once said.
Following an Easter service in 1958 at the First Assembly of God, Elvis told the Rev. James Hamill, “Pastor, I’m the most miserable young man you’ve ever seen. I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need to spend. I’ve got millions of fans. I’ve got friends. But I’m doing what you taught me not to do, and I’m not doing the things you taught me to do.”
This struggle followed Elvis his entire life. “For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do-this I keep doing.” Romans 7:19
Elvis told his friend Pat Boone, “I wish I could go to church like you.” After Boone told him he could, Elvis replied, “No, they wouldn’t leave me alone. I would distract the minister.”
Boone assured Elvis that “if they see that you are coming for the same reason that they are, all of that would ease away and you could actually worship freely like everybody else. And it would do you a world of good, Elvis.” According to Boone, Elvis “felt like he couldn’t go anywhere in public. So he was sort-of imprisoned. I felt like he lived like Public Enemy #1 instead of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. It stunted his social and spiritual growth.”
Elvis hungered and thirst for more out of life; He became determined to discover his destiny and purpose.
Gospel singer J.D. Sumner recalls a woman approaching the stage in Vegas with a crown sitting atop a pillow and Elvis asking her what it was. She answered, “It’s for you. You’re the King.” Elvis took her hand, smiled, and told her, “No honey, I’m not the King. Christ is the King. I’m just a singer.”
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