So You Would Come
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Y’know, our church sang a song from a super-old Hillsong album two Sunday ago: the song “All Things Are Possible”. Then, last Sunday, we sang “Glory To The King” from the same album.
So came Sunday evening, I was in a mood to flip through the old Hillsong songs and listen to them.
Never gets old, really - songs like “Eagle’s Wings”, “All Things Are Possible”, “Glory To The King”, “Power Of Your Love” and, of course, “Shout To The Lord”. But the one that really touched me that evening was “So You Would Come”.
And I thought this post would be a reprise lol, because I thought that I wrote about this song once. I did a search through my blog, to find an unpublished post some time more than a year ago, maybe two years ago. (Unpublished means you wouldn’t be able to see it; it was a work-in-progress.) It’s always interesting to read what your past self wrote.
But for sure one thing remains unchanged about the song and about what I think: the song just so resonates with the simplicity of the gospel. The message is so simple, yet so profound.
“Come to the Father”, as the chorus says.
It takes religious churches to pervert the gospel and adds extra conditions, rules and demands to it.
“If you don’t really, really, really, really, really, really repent, God will not forgive you!”
“God wants nothing short of you giving everything to Him! Jesus said, if you do not give up everything, you cannot be my disciple!” (That’s abusing what He said, by the way. He didn’t mean it to Believers.)
“You’d better keep a short account with God, otherwise if you die while having a list of confessed sins how?”
All those teachings are error.
No wonder people today think that Christianity is yet another religion in which God is demanding from them, when in truth, the gospel is simple: in Jesus, you have everything, relationship with God, protection, acceptance, love, success, prosperity, health, all paid for by His blood.
I like the line that said “nothing that you do, can make Him love you more, and nothing that you’ve done, can make Him close the door”.
There is nothing that you can do to earn God’s love, but God already loves you as you are. And there is nothing that you can do that can make Him give up on you. He will always be here for you =) that’s my God.
God can righteously do that, because at the Cross, Jesus took your place, and God the Father forsook Jesus when He needed His Father most so that today, in your darkest time, He will never forsake you.
This is the gospel.
