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Post by Laurentius on Aug 5, 2005 12:20:31 GMT -5
Heart of Worship (Matt Redman)
When the music fades All is stripped away And I simply come Longing just to bring Something that's of worth That will bless Your heart
I bring you more than a song For a song in itself Is not what you have required You search much deeper within Through the way things appear You're looking into my heart
I'm coming back to the heart of worship And it's all about you It's all about you, Jesus I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it When it's all about you It's all about you, Jesus
King of endless worth No one could express How much you deserve Though I'm weak and poor All I have is yours Every single breath
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Post by Laurentius on Aug 6, 2005 7:34:38 GMT -5
This song speaks to me for several reasons, maybe because it is written as a prayer. It portrays the longing of a worshiper to bring sometime worth of blessing God’s heart. And the second stanza gives us a clue on that: a song by itself means nothing. Put the best singer in the world to sing a hymn and he may outperform an out-of-tune follower of Christ yet God burns the offering of the latter rather than that of the former, like He chose Abel’s to Cain’s. Could we get into the danger of trying to polish our singing to God and in the process losing our focus? The chorus goes into say that we ought to repent of that if we find ourselves doing so and be reminded that “it’s all about Jesus”. The last stanza finishes acknowledging three things: Jesus is King; weakness and poverty –I believe the songwriter refers here not to weakness of the flesh but rather to what God says to Paul “my power is made perfect in your weakness” whereas poverty reminds us of the Sermon of the Mount: “blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven”- and that all what is ours – as it this can possible be said- is His. We don’t give anything of our own to God. We only give back to Him what is His.
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