Well I've been slow to post this week as I've had several small threads of thought that I thought I might be able to weave into something larger but nothing has materialized completely. So since I've been in a musical vein lately, and a friend's post brought a song to mind, I'm going to simply give you some music.
The song is "The Love of God" by Rich Mullins. I've sung this song live with friends and only just barely made it through. When I listen to it by myself, I'm a complete wreck. It's beautiful, it's tender, it's powerful.
"There's a wideness in God's mercy
I cannot find in my own
And He keeps His fire burning
To melt this heart of stone
Keeps me aching with a yearning
Keeps me glad to have been caught
In the reckless raging fury
That they call the love of God
Now I've seen no band of angels
But I've heard the soldiers' songs
Love hangs over them like a banner
Love within them leads them on
To the battle on the journey
And it's never gonna stop
Ever widening their mercies
And the fury of His love
Oh the love of God
And oh the love of God
The love of God
Joy and sorrow are this ocean
And in their every ebb and flow
Now the Lord a door has opened
That all Hell could never close
Here I'm tested and made worthy
Tossed about but lifted up
In the reckless raging fury
That they call the love of God"
4 comments:
Gushing...thank you
"tossed about but lifted up"
2 Cor 4 has been such a buoy for me lately too so thanks...
"reckless raging fury" I've always loved that and I catch my breath always.
"a wideness in God's mercy I cannot find in my own" but with hope that it well be ever-widening.
I'm glad you brought this song forward Blaine. I am being taught of the depth and wideness of God's mercy toward His own... and wanting to be more of an image-bearer in this respect as well.
(haha, I see you went for the version where he didn't have a mind freeze going into the third verse ;)
Haha yep! That's one of the things that made Rich so endearing: his simplicity and humility.
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