Sometimes
listening to songs, one line jumps out at me and my brain chews on it for a
while.
Chris
Tomlin’s “Jesus Son of God” is one of those songs.
“Be
lifted higher than all You’ve overcome / Your Name be louder than any other
song / There is no power that can come
against Your love / The Cross was enough
/ The Cross was enough.”
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First of all, this song is special to me because my Boaz and I have sang along
to it multiple times and any reminders of him make me smile.
But
beyond geeking about yet another song my boyfriend (man-friend) and I have in common,
there is the EPIC TRUTH expressed by the song!!!!!!!!
Think
about it.
Jesus
was subject to all evil: The corruption of a government (the Roman criminal justice
system), the betrayal of friends (Judas), public humiliation, poverty, pain,
physical and mental pain, marginalization by society (the Roman government as
well as the Jewish political leaders), intense
physical pain, a slow agonizing death, and death itself.
Yet
what did He do on Easter?
HE
ROSE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He OVERCAME all that listed above, and that’s
just the short abridged large-scale list.
I
think about the arena where Passion: White Flag was recorded as I’m guessing it
was at a large scale venue (my Boaz would then dork around on the internets and
find it to please his music-nerd self, but I wanna get this blog post out). But
anyway, there were probably thousands of stories in that room. There were
probably thousands of struggles: Unemployment or underemployment (coming out of
the Great Recession), loss of family / friends, chronic illnesses, broken
relationships, hurts from childhood, individuals living lives adapting to one
or more disabilities, victims of crime, victims of civil wrongs, people
recovering from substance abuse, and the list could go on and on. All these
people were at Passion to praise God and to see Chris Tomlin and his posse.
I
imagine that moment of singing those words: Be
lifted higher than all You’ve overcome / Your name be louder than any other
song / there is no power that can come
against Your love /The Cross was enough brought many people to
tears, brought many people to their knees as the struggles they faced came to
their minds and hearts. And then I bet their worship grew even deeper as they
realized the Truth expressed in the song: For every injustice and moment(s) of
pain represented in that room, Christ has
overcome. Christ is lifted higher than all of it. As the people in the room
and as I reflect on this truth, I can run to God for comfort and hope in the
midst of struggle.
The Cross was enough. The
Cross was Enough
