Pride and Lyrics

I've always wanted to write a song about God and have a church sing it but it's always been about me or girls. Which is crazy because I originally started playing guitar to glorify Him. Regardless of how long I would sit with my pen gripped in my fingers, eyes staring at the white empty void of my paper canvas, nothing would come out. Without a point to start, I could never create a middle or an end. I needed a point of origin and longed for it. Nothing would come. However, if I saw one girl, I could write two songs about her within minutes; and not the radio-play 3-4 minute long songs, I'm talking 6-8 minute long songs. Why could I not do the same with something so much greater?

Before going to bed one night last week, I started thumbing through some of my songs. You can tell which ones I wrote through high-school and even being 28 years old, after rereading through some of my lyrics I noticed my jaw on the ground and probably was even blushing. 'Secret Lover' 'Body Ahh' 'What's Her Name?' 'Gotta Know' 'Jasmine' 'Kay' 'Looking at You' 'Baby Blue' Kristyn' 'ForePlay' 'AfterPlay.' I was thinking to myself, 'Whaaaaaat??!!' After realizing I was in a musical path of self-ego, I made a personal decision. The next day, I left work to go home for lunch. Again, I looked over those songs. One more time. With a shake of my head in amazement, I started ripping the music into little pieces and then tossed them into the trash. I didn't need them. Not anymore. Immediately, like a burst of electricity awakening my body, ideas upon ideas rushed into my mind. Lyrics and words started piecing together forming sentences within a matter of seconds. I had to sit down and grab my pen to write down what I could. My fingers struggled to keep up with the constant flow from my head. A song was forming... and not any song but a song about God. I finished the rough version of the lyrics and would clean them up later... I started writing down lyrics for another song- another song about God. It had a happy, kind of pop song sound to it. Later that evening, the first, which started as a fast-paced, bluesy rock song somehow transitioned into a slow ballad with haunting sounds of instruments I could hear in the background.

Eventually, after fixing up some of the lyrics to flow better in the timing of the guitar, I wanted to know what it sounded like so made a rough recording and I really liked it. I am not Matt Redman or Chris Tomlin so obviously my writing skills or not going to be deeply moving or powerful; but to me, I thought it was a really nice song... and not because it came from me but because it came from Him. So I leave you with an early version of my first Christian song, 'By Jesus'.

In the Beginning was the Word and the Word of God was He.
All the things of this world would thru Him be conceived.
He blessed the world with His one and only true begotten Son.
And thru Him would be the way to the Holy One.

Mercy for Mercy and Grace for Grace by Jesus.
Revealer and Redeemer, Sweet, Sweet, Jesus.
Light of the World you illuminate to guide us home.

Time had passed and the Lord had asked, what seek you, come follow me.
Believe in my Father's name and live for eternity.
He walked on water, this Bread of Life and caused the blind man to see.
Verily, verily, He had said He's the Shepherd to lead us sheep.

Mercy for Mercy and Grace for Grace by Jesus.

Revealer and Redeemer, Sweet, Sweet, Jesus.
Light of the World you illuminate to guide us home.

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