***Hello it's Mark Lanier with your video thought for the day
so this week I've been trying to give you some songs from the soundtrack of my
life that have ministered to me and I've
tried to give a variety of songs from a variety of
places but the song that I'm gonna end with is
a new song for me and it's one our daughter Rachel
introduced us to it's called um "So Will I" and it is an
incredible song it's amazing to me what vistas have been opened up when
I've tried to learn some of these new songs
I've pulled the lyrics up here because i don't want to miss them
but I want to explain something extremely important before I do so
and this comes out of a Psalm Psalm 148 now Psalm 148 is a call to worship God
but the interesting thing to me in the call
is it talks about God being praised from the heavens in the heights
and then it says that that God is praised by
the shining stars God is praised by the sun
and the moon and you think how do the sun and the moon and the stars
praise God it's very simple they do what he created them to do
when we walk in the walk that god created for us
we bring praise to God and the stars do that perfectly the moon
and the sun does that perfectly I have a will that they don't
and so I struggle with it but god is praised when I
live the life before him he wants me to live
and that's behind this song so the song the links below and I want you to really
listen to it but I want you to try to pull up the
lyrics on your computer if you can as well it starts out with
this idea of God of creation there at the start
before the beginning of time with no point of reference
you spoke to the dark and fleshed out the wonder of light and the song walks
through God's creation as you speak a
hundred billion galaxies are born in the vapor of your breath the planets
form if the stars were made to worship
so will I and I love that this idea that if the stars are made to
worship God certainly I should
and the song continues I can see in your I can see your heart in everything
you've made every burning star a
signal fire of grace because those stars not only proclaim the praise of God
but that speaks to who we are and God's love for
us as God said in Psalm 8 he made us and in light of this
great glorious world we should see humanity made as special by God
and so if creation is going to sing the praises of God
so will I
and then he's got this little added lyric in there
God of salvation you chaste down my heart through all of my failure
and pride on a hill you created
the light of the world abandoned to darkness to die
and as you speak it's not simply a hundred billion stars
galaxies are born but hear it and as you speak a hundred
billion failures disappear
where you lost your life so I could find it here
if you left the grave behind so will I this is an amazing song in lyric it's an
amazing song of faith it's an amazing song of theology it's an
amazing song of rhythm and pitch the crescendo in it the cry of the heart
and the vocals you need to be singing this song you
need to sing it intelligently with the lyrics
in praise to God now you might say I don't like that newfangled music
the Psalms tell you to sing a new song this may be new for you it was for me
when rachel played it the first time they're in our family room we were
gathered together and she played this song
and it has become a regular part of my spiritual diet
and I hope you will feast upon it as well
I've enjoyed giving you these songs for these video thoughts this week we may
have to do it again because I've left way too many behind God bless you
see you next week