This song has been playing in my head all day...
John Mark McMillian wrote this song after losing his best friend in a car wreck but you really need to hear the testimony...please watch:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7UFoym8jI8&feature=related
After being up all night with stomach pain which has basically been nothing more than "left overs" from chemo last week, this beautiful song began to play in my head so clearly and has ministered to my heart and mind throughout the day. John Mark's friend lost his life but what an outpouring of worship that rose up out of these ashes of pain and suffering simply because his friend's last hope was for the youth of our world to understand the Love that our God has for us.
I typed out the lyrics in hopes that you would read them (really read them) and think about how His Winds and Mercies has weighed you down in order to cover and shelter you from the storm's of life that would have surely overtaken you and left you broken.
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 realize 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 so
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
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.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet 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…He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
