You Have Saved Us!

After scrounging around for a pencil that worked this past Thursday evening, I began jotting down some thoughts. Pencil in one hand, microphone in the other, I was in the middle of band rehearsal at church. That's right, I can sing and write at the same time people. Talent.

"You Have Saved Us" by Paul Baloche talks of our God as Savior and Redeemer. God is described as some who lifts us up. "Raised us up with You..." is actually what the song says.

I began to think that I have never heard of God ever pressing His people down, forgetting or crushing us. 2 Corinthians 4:7-10 says...

"we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies."

It takes much more strength to pull people up than push people down. We, in our bodies of clay, are weak, but our God is strong! So if He is holding me up, then my gravity is light. How exhilarating!

He is in the business of restoration, of bringing His people closer to Himself.

So along with the typical notes of "end on the key of E", and "bass and drums to start", and "synth rings on A as Todd talks", and the like, I also scribbled the things I heard my heart respond. In no specific order or reason....

"Your grip never breaks.

Your heart never stops

From the heartache

I cause You.

My body is clay.

My frailty just proves

my need to be liberated

from my gravity.

I wear your death.

I remember I have new breath.

Your back is so strong

to hold my sin's weight.

The lift of my soul, the flight of my sin,

the healing power of

exhilaration!"