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If you take a good look at the incredible world that God has created it's kind of hard not to feel a rising sense of gratitude and joy. The world really is remarkable and filled with beauty - we only really have to take a moment to stop and notice it. This song came from one of those moments. I was walking the dog on a gloriously sunny day, blue skies, green grass, listening to a chord sequence James had sent me for a co-write, and my heart began to overflow with the beauty of the day. I began writing the chorus as I walked and the song grew from there. When I sing it I'm transported back to that beautiful day and am filled again with the delight of that moment and thankfulness to God for what is available to us, right on our doorsteps.
At our former church we would do a 'testimony conga' where we'd open up the chance for anyone to come up to the mic and share something that God had done in their lives that week. As people shared short testimonies of what God had been saying or doing, more and more would get up from their seats and join the back of the queue. When we share how God is impacting our lives, faith rises and we remember more and more stories of His goodness. I wanted to write a simple song that would embrace the joy of that moment and encourage us as a family of God to celebrate all the good things He was doing in our community, something that would break up the speaking part of the sharing and draw everyone else into the moment, so you could sing together, have a group of testimonies, celebrate by singing together, have some more... Your story is a part of my story, this is our testimony.
It saddens me that here we all are writing songs and singing and yet apart from "Raise a Hallelujah" I am not aware of another song that celebrates the amazing heavenly gift of music itself. So this song is an attempt to put that right. Music is a fantastic gift with enormous God infused power and yet we seem to take it for granted without realising what we have on our fingertips and tongues. I can only explore a little of what music is about, but got to start somewhere!
This song is a declaration of the otherness of God. It speaks of his awesomeness, using the last two verses of Jude. It also talks about our standing before Him, how he has forgiven us and brought us into adoption, and how he has given us a future hope. I often use it as one of the first couple of songs when leading a congregation in worship because it helps us to fix our eyes on God and put Him in His rightful, authoritative, place.