I am a huge fan of songs like Voice of Truth (Casting Crowns), More (Matthew West) and similar songs. These bands are, in my opinion, forging a new stage for the same message that has touched billions of lives in all of history. But curiously, the songs that have graced my devotions of late are songs that are considered classic by today’s standards. They are songs that I grew up listening to during Sunday worship before I was tall enough to see the P&W leaders on stage. It is for this reason I learned the hand-actions from watching my mom and my dad as they sang the song.
Beautiful
Beautiful, beautiful
Jesus is beautiful
And Jesus makes beautiful
Things of my life.Carefully touching me
Causing my eyes to see
And Jesus makes beautiful
Things of my life.Beautiful, beautiful
Jesus is beautiful
And Jesus makes beautiful
Things of my life.Carefully touching me
Causing my eyes to see
And Jesus makes beautiful
Things of my life.
The second song is sorta like the matured version of the same message. In my devotion, as I sing, this song most often becomes the continuation of the first song. I sometimes wonder if they really are the same song split in two because as one they are too beautiful.
In His Time
In His time, in His time,
He makes all things beautiful, in His time,
Lord, please show me everyday,
As You’re teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say, in Your time.In Your time, in Your time,
You make all things beautiful, in Your time.
Lord, my life to You I bring,
May each song I have to sing,
Be to You a lovely thing, in Your time.
I haven’t always been faithful. But by God’s grace and in His time, all will be created beautiful.
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