Ok I say all that to say this Sunday at church was a tear fest for me! First off they song one of my favorite songs at church Beautiful Exchange by Hillsong (I L.OV.E. THIS SONG). They song it as a duet & I was like yes that is my song (yes MY song) while the couple song they played scenes from Passion of the Christ of Jesus being crucified and beaten on the large screens. As they sang the song I stood up and lifted my hands to worship my Holy God! Well the song goes on I begin to cry and am just over whelmed by his love and presence! I have only felt this way a few times in church I can probably count them on one hand. I know that my God is much more than a feeling and His love and presence is always with me but there was just something about yesterday’s service I nearly cried from beginning to end. I am just going to give you a few of the lyrics and tell you what they mean to me then I will post all the lyrics bellow and you tell me what some of them mean to you.
The first verse says so much
“You were near
Though I was distant
Disillusioned I was
Lost and insecure
Still mercy fought
For my attention
You were waiting at the door
Then I let you in
Trading your life
For my offenses
For my redemption
You carried all the blame
Breaking the curse
Of our condition
Perfection took our place”
I accepted Christ as my savior at a young age but I know I was distant from Him many times in life He was always right there waiting on me but I would be running to friend or just plain old angry and bitter at life and did not turn to Him. I had dissolutions of myself thoughts that disagreed with what/who God says I am. He was always there always loving me when I did not love myself He is always pursuing me! Revelations 3:20NIV says “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person and they with me.” Once I let Him in accepted all that He did me I was freed from insecurities, blame guilt and anything else that is associated with the fall of man. He redeemed us! He took traded all of our bad stuff for all of His Greatness! This brings me to tears to know this great love!
Chorus:
When only love could make a way
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange
Only TRUE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE could do this for me for the entire world whoever wants it! Jesus gave His wonderful, sin free, and healthy life for us so that we could live! He took our sins our sicknesses, insecurities, and shame… (Which He had none of) and replaced them with FORGIVNESS, HEALING/HEALTH, He gave us IDENTITY in Him. There are not enough words to say how beautiful this exchange is He gave us His strength for our weaknesses
I think I am going to do a second blog on the rest of the lyrics because the more I listen to the song and read the lyrics the more I see. I would love to know what the lyrics mean to you post a comment or email me at sorayajb.thoughts@gmail.com
LOVE ALWAYS
SORAYA
Joshua 1:5 NIV “5 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
BEAUTIFUL EXCHANGE BY HILLSONG
You were near
Though I was distant
Disillusioned I was
Lost and insecure
Still mercy fought
For my attention
You were waiting at the door
Then I let you in
Trading your life
For my offenses
For my redemption
You carried all the blame
Breaking the curse
Of our condition
Perfection took our place
Chorus:
When only love could make a way
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange
My burden erased
My life forgiven
There is nothing that could take this love away
And my only desire and sole ambition
Is to love you just the same
Chorus:
When only love could make a way
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange
When only love could break these chains
You gave your life in a beautiful exchange
Bridge:
Holy are you God
Holy is your name
With everything I’ve got
My heart will sing how I love you
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