history with the Lord. Please tell us about this
song as well?
[Matt] Well I wish Jonathan Lewis was here
to be able to talk about this song, because
that chorus came from something he’s been
singing for years. If you know Jonathan Lewis,
I remember meeting him at a worship set three
or four years ago where he was leading “No
Longer Slaves”, and he went into a portion
about drawing on your history with the Lord
right now, and drawing back on all that He’s
done, and look at His faithfulness, and looking
at your journey. There was something so
profound the first time I had ever heard him do
that, and this is obviously a personal conviction
and story of his that I won’t be able to tell very
well, but that’s just him.
Jonathan Lewis will be leading worship and he
will ask you to draw on your history with the
Lord, and I just think there is something so
profound about that. There is something so
profound that we never think about our history
with the Lord. I have a history with my friends,
I have a history with my family, and that history
is really important to where I am now. So it’s
such an interesting concept to think about my
history with the Lord, everything He’s done, but
not only everything He’s done, but all of the
hardships, all of the questions, all of the times
you didn’t know or didn’t have the answer, all
of the times it wasn’t easy, it’s all part of your
history with the Lord. I think that’s what that
song entails, it’s the beauty in the history and
the thankfulness in the history. That’s what the
bridge is, it’s a thank you for all that you’ve
done and are going to do. There is something
profound about that because, to me, you’re
thanking the Lord for everything He’s done and
everything He’s going to do, but the key for me
is that you’re not just thanking Him for all of the
great things He’s done in your life. To me you’re
thanking the Lord for all of the history with Him.
You’re thanking Him for the things that you
didn’t understand, for the things that were hard
that still got you to where you are now, and I
think that’s something we don’t talk about. We
talk about faithfulness and all these things that
are true, but part of thankfulness is drawing on
the things that we didn’t understand that have
still gotten us to where we are now, even if we
didn’t understand it back then.
[WM] It has been a delight to speak with you,
thank you so much for your time.
[Matt] Thank you!
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