How He Loves Us
David Crowder Band - How He Loves Us
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He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.
We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
And Heaven meets earth like an unforseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…
Absolute Silliness
God loves me. Can we all just stop for a minute and think about that statement?
Remember when the Nintendo Wii first came out and everybody thought Wii was a silly name? And then over time we just got used to it to the point where it is just normal. The same thing has happened with the phrase "God loves me." That phrase, "God loves me" is just an absolutely silly phrase. Totally ridiculous. That the God who created the universe, created every single thing in the entire universe, who commands all of space and time, not only loves me, but is in love with me. That is just absolute silliness
Can’t touch this
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
-Psalm 23:5
I'm in a dark room, and the tormentors are doing what they do best: tormenting me. Suddenly, there is a blinding light as Jesus enters the room, sending the tormentors scattering as they try and find shadows to hide in. Jesus walks up to me, and without a word, snaps his fingers, and a table appears with a nice table cloth and a little flower. He sits me down, and then he stares down the torments, almost as if to say "I dare you to try something." He turns back to me and fills my cup with his wine, pouring and pouring till it overflows. And then he keeps pouring. Me? The whole time I just have a dumb grin on my face as I stick it to the tormentors. Can't touch this.
Conversations With God
What is it you're looking for?
That's a good question. What am I looking for? Answers I guess.
Answers to what?
I don't know. My life I uess? What to do? Where to go maybe? What you're going to do?
And what would you do with those answers?
I don't know, prepare I guess? Try to get there?
Because it's within your means to get there right? Because if you knew where you were going you could get there.
Uhh I guess not. Not without you at least.
Then what's the problem?
Uhh I don't know, I guess it'd just be nice to know.
Right. What, do you not trust me to get you to where I want to safely?
Honestly, I guess I kinda don't. I dunno, I want to say I do, but that'd end up innaccurate.
Yea, "innaccurate." Why do you have a hard time trusting me?
I don't know. I'm human.
I know you are.
I'm trying though.
Yea I know. But your problem isn't that you aren't trying hard enough, it's that you keep forgetting how much I love you. You forget how awesome I am.
Yea I do. I just keep getting distracted by other things.
You know I love you right?
Yep.
No really, I love you. Like, I really really love you. I don't think you really get that. I don't think you really understand what that entails.
...
It's more than just some kind of lame "I <3 You" thing. I want only good things for you. When you are happy, I'm happy. When you are having a hard time, it absolutely destroys me. It breaks my heart. It's a total "Dude lets hang out. We never do anything together anymore. I miss you" thing. I'm totally crazy about you.
And what are you going to do with me?
For the time being, I'm going to take the noob out of you.
But that hurts.
I know it does. But you'd rather spend all eternity being a noob?
I guess not.
I'm not going to lie, it's going to be long and painful. But one day, you'll be perfect. Isn't that exciting?
Totally. It can't come faster.
You're always so impatient. Chill out a bit and focus on what's going on today. Not what might or will happen sometime down the line. I know what I'm doing. It'll work out. Do you trust me?
Yea. But I can't gaurantee that that won't change. Again, I'm human.
Yea well, there's grace for that.
Thanks.
