Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God, You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
And if our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against
Our God – Chris Tomlin
There is so much truth and power in these lyrics. I love it. He is the One to hold on to when life gets hard. He is the One there to heal when we are broken. He is unstoppable.
I have had the song on my Video Of The Week stuck in my head for a few days on end now. I keep turning it on and I keep hearing it in my head. Sometimes having a song stuck in your head like that is so annoying that you want to bang your head against the wall and throw out your Apple products…well that is probably going a little too far, but you know what I mean. But then there are those times that the song that is stuck in your head is helping you. It is building you up. It is strengthening you. It is ministering to you. This is one of those times.
The song is called Beautiful Things by Gungor. While the whole song is great, I just have the main lines of the chorus on repeat as if it were a broken record (Yeah, I said it! Do you even remember those things? I hear they are making a comeback.).
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
It’s so perfect! We are nothing! We are dust! Yet God takes us and makes us into beauty. He makes us shine. It’s just hitting me on several different levels.
It just keeps on running through my head. I guess I need to learn from it. Do the same. Remember that without God we are just dust. With Him and through Him we are something far more beautiful that we could pull off on our own. I want my life to be beautiful in His eyes. Thank Him for loving you even when you are only dust and turning you into something amazingly beautiful!
I’m really not sure that it gets much better lyrically than a well written picture. Make sense? I absolutely love it when the lyrics of a song just completely show you everything through the descriptive words. One of my favorite songs like this is Make A Joyful Noise/I Will Not Be Silent by David Crowder*Band.
Running through the forest, dive into the lake, bare feet on beaches white
Standing in the canyon, painted hills around, the wind against my skin
Every ocean, every sea, every river, every stream
Every mountain, every tree, every blade of grass will sing
When I hear it I can just feel the sand, the wind. I can see the hills all around me. Amazing. I can hear all of creation crying out to their Maker! That’s what they do! They live it! I so wish I did. I wish I could just leave my flesh aside and truly join in with creation. How insane would that be?!
Today I have been basically engulfed with the song How He Loves sung by Kim Walker. It’s not like I have had someone forcing the song on me, but just more of the fact that I can’t get it out of my head. But I’m not sure I want to. This song written by John Mark McMillan is just packed full of emotion (which I’m not the best at showing) and is a new favorite of mine that draws an incredible picture. Even as I’m writing this, I am listening to the song and it just over takes me.
He is jealous for me
Love’s like a hurricane, I am a tree bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize just how beautiful You are and how great Your affections are for me.
We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way He loves us
He is jealous for me. I’m just gonna stop there. No really. I don’t think I can add anything to that. I’m done. Just go back and read them again. Let them sink in.
