You Are Amazing

Hi There! Thanks for visiting. I have downloaded a very rough version of the song I wrote. Please excuse the poor recording. Some day I would love to add instruments and voices and fill this song out… but for now it’s just me, my guitar and some creative parts of my heart pouring out before God.

The lyrics are down below, thanks!

Here’s the mp3 recording – You Are Amazing 

 YOU ARE AMAZING

V1

Meeting with You, Here in this place

Knowing Your presence, I am embraced

Creator and King, ruler of all

Knowing my faults and still you call

 

Pre-Chours

You call me beloved, You call me your own

You called me from death to life, With you I’m home

 

V2

Powerful One, Holy and Just

Righteous and worthy in You I trust

Father, Son, Spirit, one but yet three

Almighty Maker, You speak to me

 

CHORUS

Standing to praise, in awe of Your grace

How could love like this be true

Died on a tree, setting me free

Taking all my guilt and shame

 

TAG

You are amazing

You are amazing

You are amazing

You are truth

Coming before the King

It has been good to ponder the nature of who God is in His many roles, and within this dynamic understanding of Him, how we can enter into His presence. I love the fact that God is not crowned and I think realizing this opens up another layer of who He really is. God is not crowned because there is no one above Him to crown Him, He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. I love that about God, and in all His splendor and majesty, He offers Himself to us and comes running to us, like the father in the story of the prodigal son. Truly amazing!

I also liked thinking about the process of coming before God as just that, a process. So often I just dive right in, but after listening to Don Williams speak of coming to the King like a procession, it made me think twice about how I personally enter into worship and how I approach this great King. The flow of a worship set came to mind as I thought deeper about this procession. Starting with praise and adoration, we honor God as Holy and set apart before anything else. We lay before Him our hopes, dreams, desires, gifts and we surrender. We then move into more thankfulness for who He is and all He has done which very naturally can tend to highlight our failings, our sin and our desperate need for Him. After we’ve honored Him, bowed before Him, thanked Him and been aware of our own sin, we come full circle and praise Him who is Holy once again. I love thinking of the worship set as a procession and I think we have the opportunity to do that each time we come before Him. 

A Church United

Kathryn Scott, in her recent blog posts, tells of her experience in Slovakia. She shares her feelings as she worshipped with people from other nations, tribes and tongues. How beautiful it is when Catholics and Protestants worship together! I was struck by the fact that it was two Catholic churches she went to worship with. Not only were all kinds of different ethnic peoples gathered but within the Church there was unity as Protestant and Catholic’s worshiped the living God together.  

I long for more of this in our own country, for bridges to be mended and for the Church (capitol ‘C’) to untie with each other, weather within the Protestant tradition or between the Catholic and Protestant traditions, I long for more unity. I think that on that night in Slovakia, when voices were raised in worship, that even Satan himself cowered in fear. There is great power in unity when the Church is one, as it should be.

Blogging worshippers

I think that I’ve been under a rock for a while. I also think that this course is giving me the extra push I need to connect more with my computer, my coffee and this world of blogging worshippers I had no idea that Matt Redman had his own blog for the world to see. I enjoyed reading his latest posts and for years have been inspired not only by his songwriting gifts but by his character. The honesty of his character was confirmed to me once again in reading just a few of his recent posts today. Throughout his writing, he points his readers to Jesus again and again. I think a mark of a great songwriter is someone who can lead and inspire others to look to the one whom they are writing about.

More than just a good song

Though I have not written many songs, I was moved and encouraged by what Brenton Brown and Don Williams had to say on the subject of theologically sound songwriting. I am in a unique place in my worship leading because I am a worship leader who is also a pastor. Or should I say a pastor who is also a worship leader? I feel very much in the middle of both roles with both roles sharing an equal amount of my heart, time and energy. I tend to have one foot in both worlds all the time and find myself torn on any given day with how to give appropriate attention to both. I feel that I am continually asking God for more balance in this area and I hope it is on the way as new worship leaders begin to rise up in our community.  

The songs I have written have been birthed from deep experience with God and others but I am reminded from the media this week that good experience is not enough, our songs need to be rooted and established in truth. I agree wholeheartedly with Don Williams that if we are not producing songs in truth then we are “trafficking in the Kingdom of darkness”*. That is a bold statement but I believe it to be a necessary one. 

I appreciated how Brenton Brown gave adequate attention to the process of bringing a song to life. He shared how we can not ignore our emotion or experience when writing but hopefully our experience, rooted in scripture and theological soundness, will be the base from which our creativity flows. 

 

* Don Williams – (Why Theology)

Welcome

Hi There. My name is Megan, I am a wife, mother, worship leader, church planter and counselor. My husband and I moved from the Evanston, IL area to start a Vineyard church in Charlottesville VA just before the summer of 2006. I am currently enrolled the essentials blue course in Studies in Worship Theology and Biblical Worldview, which is the reason for this blog. Happy reading and thanks for visiting!