incredible.
Alright, so earlier this week I was thinking about songs for camp this summer and just praying that we would be able to choose songs that would have an incredible impact on the hearts of the students. As I was thinking, praying, and listening, I thought, “how conceited that I think the songs we choose will move their hearts? Isn’t that God’s place?” Mind you, I want to be a part of providing excellent programming in our camps, but God is definitely not limited to our production in how He is going to move.That aside, I have had this song in my mind ALL week that Eddie Kirkland did a part of at camp last summer. It repeats over and over “How He loves us, oh how He loves us, oh how He loves.” Such simple words, but such powerful, powerful truth. Then, as I was reading through my excellent Google Reader subscribed blogs today, and on Ragamuffin Soul he had a video, oddly enough, of this song. There are 2 videos here…one of a band performing, what I think, is a very powerful version of this song. The second pretty much brought me to tears. It is a video of the guy who wrote this song, and to sum it up…his friend was a youth pastor and was praying for a powerful movement among the teens of this generation. He said he would give his life that day if it would shake the youth of this nation. Later that night he died…and through his death came this song, through this song came change and restoration among teenagers…although not instant, God answered both parts of that prayer. Not only did a change happen in the generation over time, but He did take that youth pastors life. I urge you to watch the video and hear the whole story in more detail…it is very powerful.Honestly, I am not sure why I am writing this blog, but as camp gets closer, part of me dreads the schedule that we are about to go through again this summer, grueling and hard, heartbreaking to be away from family and friends. But more than that, just the remembrance of the moments last summer, seeing the students on their faces in surrender before the Lord, broken and weary, but worshipping their hearts out, I am reminded of why I do what I do. My prayer for this generation of students is that they will have their worlds rocked, wrecked, and broken to the point where they can do nothing except fall on their knees and proclaim, “HOW HE LOVES ME, OH HOW HE LOVES ME, OH HOW HE LOVES!” I think this song just served as a reminder of that…and I am thankful the Lord reminded me of that.If you get a chance, check these videos out.
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