Last night I went to the Chris Tomlin/Israel Houghton Hello Love Tour Concert. The feeling of worshipping with an arena full of people, brothers and sisters, was amazing. There was a point where all of the voices in the room were singing the chorus of How Great is Our God. Beautiful. Chris went on to talk about last year's tour and how he learned the words to this song in the language spoken in each world city he went to. And then he sang How Great is Our God in spanish, then in russian. And I closed my eyes and remebered the times in chapel that Jose Velasquez prayed in spanish, and when Yun-Hi prayed in Korean and got just a glimpse of heaven. The night was truly amazing.
We also sang Amazing Grace together. And when we got to the chorus my chains are gone/i've been set free/my God, my Savior has ransomed me/and like a flood His mercy rains unending love, amazing grace, Chris said something along the lines of you can't lift your hands to worship God if they are chained, so give it to Him and in faith, raise your hands in freedom. And I realized that it is a daily giving it to Him, believing that He will take it and rain down mercy and love on me until I drown.
One word I heard over and again last night: beautiful. And truly it is.
I miss you, friend.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
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