Part 1.
Epiphany is the sudden realization of truth, but surety is a full trust in truth's unmoving security. However, I've learned that trust isn't always a feeling. Sometimes trust is nose-to-the-grindstone work. It takes effort to return again and again to the rock after being blown by winds of difficulty, even if you always know the rock will be there. There's an element of clinging to surety. The truth doesn't move, but you do - falling from weakness over and over again. I recognize this in the lyrics of "A Better Word" by Bethany Barnard.
I hear the blood of Abel speak
in accusation over me.
I'm guilty and I am in need
of mercy.
But every time this happens, no matter how many times it happens, we can to return to the prayer-refrain:
You have broken
the power of my sin.
The curse I lived in
has been reversed.
The blood of Jesus
is my provision.
You have spoken
a better Word.
As Hebrews says, "we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus." This is eternal, never-changing, constant and sure!
With "Dawn," Jake Scott is yet another artist I've followed through the lyrical changes of falling in love and getting married (including Jess and Beth). But beyond the basic storyline of building a family, I enjoy this song for the way he expresses his place in the world very simply.
I'm in love
One might wonder how I get a theme of surety from this song when it talks about being displaced, broken and changed. But the sheer number of times he says...
I'm in love
...shows an absolute surety about who he is and what everything means (or doesn't mean) to him. It's the home where he exists, and it reminds me that love has to be the foundation from which you reach out to the world...to be continued in Songs of 2018, Part 3: Movement.
Epiphany is the sudden realization of truth, but surety is a full trust in truth's unmoving security. However, I've learned that trust isn't always a feeling. Sometimes trust is nose-to-the-grindstone work. It takes effort to return again and again to the rock after being blown by winds of difficulty, even if you always know the rock will be there. There's an element of clinging to surety. The truth doesn't move, but you do - falling from weakness over and over again. I recognize this in the lyrics of "A Better Word" by Bethany Barnard.
I hear the blood of Abel speak
in accusation over me.
I'm guilty and I am in need
of mercy.
But every time this happens, no matter how many times it happens, we can to return to the prayer-refrain:
You have broken
the power of my sin.
The curse I lived in
has been reversed.
The blood of Jesus
is my provision.
You have spoken
a better Word.
As Hebrews says, "we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus." This is eternal, never-changing, constant and sure!
This song is a reminder that no matter how much it seems like the devil has the upper hand, as Christians we already know the ending, and we're on the winning side.
the harder the wind will blow,
the deeper our roots will go
Darkness might feel powerfully suffocating, but light obliterates it so immediately. We simply have to open the shades.
It will flood a blinding light
it will chase away the night.
Even if you shield your eyes,
let it pour in, let it pour in!
It will flood a blinding light
it will chase away the night.
Even if you shield your eyes,
let it pour in, let it pour in!
With "Dawn," Jake Scott is yet another artist I've followed through the lyrical changes of falling in love and getting married (including Jess and Beth). But beyond the basic storyline of building a family, I enjoy this song for the way he expresses his place in the world very simply.
I'm in love
One might wonder how I get a theme of surety from this song when it talks about being displaced, broken and changed. But the sheer number of times he says...
I'm in love
...shows an absolute surety about who he is and what everything means (or doesn't mean) to him. It's the home where he exists, and it reminds me that love has to be the foundation from which you reach out to the world...to be continued in Songs of 2018, Part 3: Movement.
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