the World War II years. When the war ended,
one of the characters asked another, “So, what
was your war like”? I thought the question
profound, because speaking as an older man,
so much of life is about war and tough stuff
happening in our lives, and our responses
and journey through it all until liberation. Our
perspective changes and deepens over time,
and if not for our worship and understanding
of, and relationship with the Lord God, we
would be castaways, lost in our circumstances
and without hope. As worship leaders and
songwriters, do you have any thoughts on this?
[Kim] I actually gave my life to the Lord
my senior year of high school. I was about
eighteen years old and I remember the point
in my growth and development in my walk with
the Lord, when I realized that committing my
life to Jesus was not a guarantee that things
would be easy and smooth. Actually, like you
said, there is kind of an ongoing war and battle
with things that we’re facing. But I recognized
it in that moment, because I had started to feel
a little disappointed, and I realized that I have
something that people without Jesus don’t
have, and that’s Jesus. I have someone to
walk with me through th
worship has been essen
know for many others, in
valleys, those desert se
war. I can’t imagine ha
of those things without
remember even when m
feel like worshipping, be
was angry. I was in a lot
to choose to worship an
that step forward and c
the midst of pain and
to see the fruit that b
recognizing that even in
still be comforted by the
me in that place. That’s
me. He didn’t require
worked out and He didn
my pain or ignore my a
He met me in that pla
I know as a team that
this many times, becau
and ministry now with C
much of our team for tho
a long time to be doin
people, and I think tha
worship is something th
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