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[tinpra]

How could someone like you love someone like me--
full of mistakes and insecurities?
When you look at my life tell me what do you see
that makes you love me so
Is it the nails that pierced your side?
Or the moment you dropped your head and you died?
For a sinner like me you gave up your life
It's time to let you know.

Lord I surrender
I give you all I have
It's not much, but I hear you
calling
So here I am
standing in your grace.

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[wrenel.livejournal.com]

Lovely. A beautiful witness and surrender to the Lord's love.

Though I think He did not love you beginning with His passion, but from eternity, before you even were. We think of the nails and learn what love cost Him. But He rose by His own power, and Alleluia! we are able by His grace to return His love!

Many more graces to you, friend.

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

We-ell it's not my own witness, directly, although it resonates with me deeply. It's a song by Kirk Franklin. I agree that I've always had trouble with the lyrics Is it the nails that pierced your side?/ Or the moment you dropped your head and you died? They're not particularly scriptural, not when the Bible says that Jesus was slain from the foundation of the world...long before the song was written :)

But it does remind me of the time an evangelist told me that He would have come and suffered and died just for me, even if all of humanity, past-present-future, had been perfect and sinless. I'd heard it before, it was even the refrain of a song I loved, but I hadn't really believed that He could love me like that. And this song touches on that for me, in spite of the questionable lyrics :)

[wrenel.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I've sure learned a lot from you since we friended each other. Now you've got me off on a Kirk Franklin tangent. I'm listening right now to "Standing In Your Grace" on YouTube. I get what you mean by "resonates" even if the lyrics aren't spot on to what you believe, because what he's trying to express is so beautiful. It's sort of like a snapshot of where Franklin was at that moment of his faith journey.

I agree that Jesus would have come for you even if you were the only one who ever sinned. I'm guessing that you think as I do on this, that He would have come for you even if you were the only one He could rescue from sin, and that He would have died even if no-one ever repented but there was at least the tiniest chance that a single soul would return His love. It's because of what He made us to be. I don't think we will ever know how precious we are to Him, even in eternity. He just flat out loves us.

I liked some of Franklin’s other music, too. My favorites so far are “Without You” and “Be Like Him.” (A South African folk song . . . how cool is that?) I found the basic lyrics to both songs so I can learn them. It’s probably going to drive my family nuts while I learn the Zulu folk song in “Be Like Him.” But I’ll try to be merciful and practice when no-one else is home! ;D

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

Kirk Franklin is nothing if not eclectic. You'll find a lot of music styles on his various albums. "Be Like Him" is certainly one of me and my mother's favorites. We were one a mini-mission to decipher the part in (I suppose) Swahili.

You might like "Help Me Believe" and "It Would Take All Day" from his new album The Fight of My Life.

And for African folk songs...there's actually like a 20 second blurb of an audience in Africa singing at a concert by Israel Hougton and New Breed that my mother and I like. The whole things is only a line and a half, but we love it.