I grew up in a Christian family with parents who loved the Lord. At a young age, I realized that what mattered to my parents was taking care of people. So many times we would meet people and have them over or go visit them. Many of them were not like us. They had different cultures, were of different races, and had different backgrounds. But I came to know that although they were different from us, the Lord loved each one of us and chose us as we are.
I remember seeing the beauty of Christ in so many different vessels and being touched that it is a Person living in us that makes us one Body. As a teenager and even into my twenties, as I got to know the Lord more in a personal way, I began to see that His heart is not just for people individually, but for people built up in love, as the church, His Body.
In the summer of 2008, I was asked to write a song for a truth school for young people. As I had written other songs for the same purpose previously, I gladly said yes. The topic for that truth school was the church. So I opened the lesson book and began to look at the different chapter titles to see if anything caught my eye.
I prayed and asked the Lord that He would show me what is on His heart and that He would write this song through me. As I began to consider what to write, a few verses came to my mind. These verses were: Heb. 12:2, Matt. 13:46, and Eph. 2:10, 3:8, 3:10, 5:25.
A melody came into my heart and as I let the tune develop, spontaneously I began to have a sense of how much the Lord loved the church and how much He longs for us to be built up together in love. The words just began to flow. And the tears also flowed. I was overwhelmed by the Lord's love not only for me but for each member of His body. I realized that we together are His delight and this was the whole reason that He died. He saw the built up church, a finished masterpiece, and it ravished His heart.
I was so happy that I could be a part of this masterpiece.After writing the song, I had a sense that the Lord was happy. I consecrated this song to Him for His use and I feel that many have been touched while singing the words of this song. May many more be touched by His love for the church and see that the built up church is what He desires, and it is what will bring Him back.
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