Lord, I Need You by Christy
Nockels, Daniel Carson, Jesse Reeves, Kristian Stanfill, Matt Maher:
I need Thee O I need Thee
Every hour I need Thee
O bless me now my Savior
I come to Thee
-Robert Lowry, 1872
Both the
song we’ve been learning the past few Sundays and the 141-year-old hymn it is
based on are songs of confession.
Thus, our new song begins “Lord I come I confess…” We confess that our lives
fall apart without His holding us together. We confess that we are dead in sin
without His grace. That we are simply wrong without His righteousness (aka
right-ness).
It’s one
thing to sing as though we need Him for our very breath. It’s another to live
that way. Especially, in a society where we are not accustomed to needing much at all. Haven’t you found it difficult to truly
hunger and thirst for God when you scarcely fathom true hunger or thirst? I
certainly have.
And yet
we sing. We sing boldly and loudly of our profound need in hopes that it might
just sink in a little more each time. That maybe tomorrow we’ll ask more
boldly, seek more persistently, and knock a little harder on the door of the
throne room of God Almighty who stands ready to freely give all we will ever
need by the power of His Spirit.
Find It:
Lifting my
voice with yours, Pastor Neil
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