I received this thoughtful email message from my sweet friend over at "Life is Just So Daily" the day after I posted my last blog entry...
"Hey K, Was listening to a new CD (Freedom) I got for my birthday by Mandisa. It's so good. All the songs are very powerful but one struck me last night - especially after reading your blog. It's called "Broken Hallelujah" by Mandisa. "
I wept. Then I listened to the song and wept some more. It is beautiful and fitting. It speaks of my journey at this present moment. Thank you my sweet friend for thinking of me! I LOVE how you listened to God's gentle voice prompting you to share this song with me. In moments like this, I just don't understand how people cannot believe in God, sovereign Creator! He binds the smallest details together perfectly and timely! I love that!
Also, I just love how music touches our soul and speaks our heart's cry so eloquently when we can't seem to put it into words. I especially love this line in the song, " still a song of adoration will rise up from these ruins and I will worship you and give you praise." In my moments of doubting God and wondering if He is listening to my cries of anguish, I have always made sure I keep on singing and keep communicating. In essence, I was singing a "broken hallelujah." I love how this song conveys God loves our broken hallelujahs. To Him, they are GRANDIOSE HALLELUJAHS! I know in my moments of doubt, at the core of my being, I still adore Jesus and want praise to rise up from my ruins!
I hope this song can be an encouragement to those who listen to it today. Soak it in. Keep on singing. Stay close to Jesus, especially through your journey of pain and ruin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH16B5449Iw
Broken Hallelujah
With my love and my sadness
I come before You Lord
My heart's in a thousand pieces
Maybe even more
Yet I trust in this moment You're with me somehow
And You've always been faithful so Lord even now
When all that I can sing is a broken Hallelujah
When my only offering is shattered praise
Still a song of adoration will rise up from these ruins
And I will worship You and give You thanks
Even when my only praise is a broken Hallelujah
Oh Father, You have given
much more than I deserve
And I have felt Your hand of blessing
on me at every turn
How could I doubt Your goodness,
Your wisdom, Your grace
Oh Lord hear my heart in this painful place
When all that I can sing is a broken Hallelujah
When my only offering is shattered praise
Still a song of adoration will rise up from these ruins
And I will worship You and give You thanks
Even when my only praise is a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I lift my voice
Your spirit moves
I raise my hands
I reach for You
'Cause all that I can sing is a broken Hallelujah
And my only offering is shattered praise
Still a song of adoration will rise up from these ruins
And I will worship You and give You thanks
Even when my only praise is a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
2 comments:
I just love the words in this song, and that even what we think is broken is still precious to Him. Selah has a cool song with really great words about laying our shattered stuff before the Lord, and what he does with it. I won't hog your comment section by putting them here, but i will send it to you on FB!
xo
You said exactly what I was trying to say, "even what we think is broken is still precious to Him!" AMEN!! I am looking forward to hearing that Selah song! Thanks for sending it to me too...beautiful words! And don't worry about being a hog...hog away my friend!!:)
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