This is the air I breathe,
This is the air I breathe -
Your holy presence living in me.
This is my daily bread,
This is my daily bread -
Your very word spoken to me.
And I, I'm desperate for You!
And I, I'm lost without You!
So I'm just wondering, is this a new covenant song? Or is it a song that is buried within an old covenant mentality? I only ask because I think I've always invested it with old covenant meaning - it's a song I would sing when feeling far from God for one reason or another, usually sin of one sort or another. So this became my pity-party song, by which I would seek to show God how sorry I was so that maybe He'd deign to shine on me again.
But now I understand that God is always smiling on me, because He sees me exactly as He sees Jesus. Now I understand that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I understand that my standing before Him is no longer based on works, but on my simple trust in what He has already accomplished on my behalf in Jesus. I have to remind myself of these things at times, but that is happening less frequently as I go on!
So is there still a place for these songs of hunger and desperation for God? Or is it entirely old covenant, because we should be recognising that God is always closer than we realise, and just step into the good of that?
2 comments:
I dunno, is there a place for saying 'I love you' or 'I need you' in any other covenant relationships which people experience?
I don't think it's a song which pleads, it's a song which proclaims: yes, I want to experience more of God, yes want to live more fully in the reality of what He's done, yes I acknowledge my dependence on God.
My opinion, obviously :)
There's a Romans 8 groaning that is very much something birthed in us by the Spirit which in turn births more stuff in us and each other.That would also be the heart cry going on in U2's Street with No name...obviously originally birthed in the context of catholics and Protestants learning to leave their names behind...but actually it has a much greater scope, sweeping all people groups and nations.
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