How He Loves Me

He is jealous for me
Love's 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.

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.

So 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

That he loves us,
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves He loves us,
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves

These lyrics are AMAZING! I just cannot get over this song. Everytime I hear it, I'm filled with more awe of God, and I "get it" so much more. This song is just beautiful. The words. The meaning. Everything. I love how figurative the language is and I think it describes it perfectly. I think everytime I hear this song I burst out in praise (and singing, usually in my car at the top of my lungs), and sometimes I cry.

A friend and I talked the other day about how some people claim that worship songs today are too much about "us" and not "Him," and that's why they don't like them. Well, I'm not a hater of either side just to put it out there. But I didn't think that was true. When I heard this song again today in chapel, I started thinking about it. This song is talking about how He loves US.... so it could definitely be taken that way (as in "this song is about me ") if you want to be cynical. But if you truly see the purpose behind the song and all of the imagery there is NO way that you can see that this way. This song is TOTALLY all about God. It's about how he loves us so much that it doesn't even make sense because he's so amazing and forever and perfect and we are so human and frail and sinful. But he is SO GREAT AND MERCRIFUL that he loves me anyway. No, this song is not about me. This song is all about God. All about how he has redeamed me, an undeserving person, and how THAT makes me worthy.

Sigh. What a beautiful message.