Majesty (Here I Am)
It's been awhile since I posted one of these. It's been awhile since I posted anything, other than my rant earlier. I think I need to post something a little more uplifting. Another of my (horrifically short) Music and Meaning series.
This song is by Delirious? and is from their 2004 album "World Service". I just picked this up the other day because I've been listening ad nauseum to their 1997 two-disc set "The Cutting Edge" from when they first started. I attached on to this song and really love it. That means that people in church, home group, or youth had better be prepared to hear it themselves. Anyway, let's see the words.
Here I am, humbled by your majesty,
Covered by your grace so free.
Here I am, knowing I'm a sinful man,
Covered by the blood of the Lamb.
Now I've found the greatest love of all is mine,
Since You laid down Your life, the greatest sacrifice.
Majesty, Majesty.
Your grace has found me just as I am,
Empty-handed but alive in Your hands.
Here I am, humbled by the love that You give,
Forgiven so that I can forgive.
So here I stand, knowing that I am Your desire,
Sanctified by glory and fire.
And now I've found the greatest love of all is mine,
Since You laid down Your life, the greatest sacrifice.
Majesty, Majesty.
Your grace has found me just as I am,
Empty-handed but alive in Your hands.
Singing Majesty, Majesty.
Forever I am changed by Your love,
In the presence of Your Majesty, Majesty.
We're singing Majesty, Majesty.
Your grace has found me just as I am.
And I'm nothing but alive in Your hands.
Just typing it is soothing. Martin Smith and Stu Garrard have to be two of the best songwriters on the planet. All of their songs have such a depth of spirit and creativeness of lyric that it's impossible not to exactly picture what they are depicting. The songs are simple, yet complex. Easy to learn but hard to forget.
This song is praise, simple and straightforward. God is the author and recipient of our love. This song just pours out that love back to God. My favorite phrase is "Empty-handed but alive in Your hands." I bring nothing back to God but my love for Him. Sometimes that's hard for me to do (for an example, go to the post right before this). I get angry with God sometimes. I don't understand in the long run why things are beneficial to me when they happen. It's part of being "Sanctified by glory and fire" referred to in the song I guess, but I wish it weren't so painful. If God wants to give me an object lesson, how about rolling back the eastern sky and writing it out for me. Maybe send some old dude down from a mountain with it written on stone tablets? OK, looking back, that didn't work too well either.
I just love the simplicity of the song. It's more great stuff from Delirious? and I will warn you to expect more of their music in this series. However, I think the next one is going to be from a more traditionally secular band. Not hard to guess who it will be, but I'll keep you in suspense. If you're reading this far. Which is a sure bet that no one has noticed this last sentence. Which means I should stop.