Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Beautiful Things

The song If I Stand by Rich Mullins is a beautiful song sang from the perspective of a man in a room with a campfire who is radically experiencing the omnipotence and vast love of God. Beautiful things by Gungor is one of my all time favorite worship songs. It is a somewhat repetitive song, however its lyrics have a cool poetic meaning. Or at least it has a very strong personal meaning to me. I'm not really sure if I can separate the two though. The persona is of a person who shares their outlook on the world before and after they are saved. Before being the first verse and after being the second.Or perhaps it is from the perspective of a person wrought with doubt before and after the answers are made clear. The song has many biblical allusions to the creation of man and how we come from dust. I love this song though, well worth a listen.
"Beautiful Things"

All this pain
I wonder if I’ll ever find my way
I wonder if my life could really change at all
All this earth
Could all that is lost ever be found
Could a garden come up from this ground at all

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

All around
Hope is springing up from this old ground
Out of chaos life is being found in You

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

You make me new, You are making me new
You make me new, You are making me new

You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us

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  1. Stephanie CarnesJanuary 14, 2016 at 8:07 AM

    Thanks for posting this song. I actually considered including it in my blog post because I think it is so powerful. As you pointed out, the song alludes to our creation from dust, and it makes us think of all the times in the Bible that God made beautiful things out of meager ingredients (the rainbow after the flood, the loaves and fishes into a feast, the resurrection after the crucifixion, the water into wine). How much more can He take the detritus of our lives and make it beautiful.

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