Me too, Aaron!

I have been listening to a certain song that has a line in it that has been resonating quite a bit for me and in a variety of different situations as of late. It is called "My Savior, My God" and was arranged by Aaron Shust. This is what Aaron has to say about it on his site and in his own words:

I was reading my "One Year Book of Hymns" and stumbled across a hymn entitled "I Am Not Skilled To Understand" whose words blew me away. I didn't bother searching for the melody: its obscurity indicated antiquity. So I started from scratch and sang it without the chorus for over a year at our church, which seemed to embrace it as it was. But I wanted to take it over he top. Sitting at a red light one night, a melody of excitement and a lyric that seemed to pull together the concept of Christ, my Advocate, always pleading my case, was born. And the song finally exploded on the chorus like I always knew it should. i do not understand everything, but I know that Jesus Christ loves me and is alive defending me. That calls for a big chorus.

Here are the lyrics..... (take a listen here)

My Savior My God
I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at his right hand
Stands one who is my savior

I take him at his word and deed
Christ died to save me this I read
And in my heart I find a need
For him to be my savior

That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my savior

My savior loves, my savior lives
My savior's always there for me
My God he was, my God he is
My God he's always gonna be

Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring
That he who lives to be my king
Once died to be my savior

That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my savior

My savior loves, my savior lives
My savior's always there for me
My God he was, My God he is
My God he's always gonna be

So, "What's the line in the song?", you ask?
"You count it strange, so once did I"

When I stop and think about Jesus and the radical revolutionary He was, it still seems strange. Mainly because I have been born into a culture that is at it's core, in direct opposition to what the man they called The Christ was all about. I wonder if it would have originally seemed more strange to me or less strange to me if I had been born in a different culutre. Either way, I cannot deny those times in my life that I have felt the undeniable presence of God deep within me.

BOTTOMLINE...

This "jar of clay" was somehow found "worth it" by homeless man!!!

Me too, Aaron.....I still count it strange sometimes.

semper reformanda ragamuffin

sinbad

Amen