Revisiting a song that he co-wrote over 20 years ago with his Delirious mates, Martin has collaborated with Cody Carnes and Chris Tomlin to bring us a new song with a life of its own,“ Our God Reigns( Over All the Earth).” It was a delightful and informative visit sitting down with Martin, who continues to be a significant voice in worldwide worship.
[ Alex ] Welcome! It’ s good to see you and thank you for this time.
[ Martin Smith ] Thank you!
[ WM ] So we’ re here to talk specifically about the song“ Our God Reigns” and so I’ ve drafted some questions and before you say anything about my shirt, I’ m actually selling ice cream after we get off of the meeting here, so I’ m ready to go.( laughs)
[ Martin ] We’ re all multitasking, aren’ t we?( laughs) That’ s a good shirt though. It’ s a very French shirt.
[ WM ]( laughing) Let’ s get to it. So, we live in a sometimes terrifying and confusing world. If it’ s not foreign threats of war, it’ s domestic threats of terrorism, the economy, the futures of our kids and our grandkids, church divisions, church scandals, the politicization of everything, injustice and pandemic illnesses and even distilling the truth has become difficult as the Roman Governor Pilate asked Jesus,“ What is truth?” And now all of this to say this is why“ Our God Reigns” carries such a resonating message. I cite the following lyrics from the song:“ Find us on our knees Have mercy on us, please. Our hope is in you We believe it’ s true God can save a nation“ What can you say about this, Martin?
[ Martin ] Yeah, I mean, obviously this is all in scripture. This song has been taken really from the amazing sermon, amazing song that King David preached at the rededication of the ark.
It is the bringing the ark back to Jerusalem, and then of course he did his famous dance down the street in his underpants.
But that moment represented a new day and a new season and the saving of a nation, the rededication of a nation. It’ s been interesting doing the song because I realized that in the Gen Z world( all my kids are Gen Zs). We don’ t talk a lot about the nations. We talk a lot about ourselves, our own relationship with God, our connection, what God’ s doing in our
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