I was at church Sunday when a new worship song was introduced. The story behind it is pretty remarkable. The author of the song attends Hillsong Church in Australia. About 2 years ago the author announced to the church he was suffering from terminal cancer and only had about 5 months to live. The church sang his song "Healer" and enjoyed an amazing time of worship. The author of the song was clearly sick; he was constantly vomitting and nauseaous from his illness. About 2 weeks ago it was announced that the author of the song had lied about his illness. He was not suffering from his cancer. He had lied to his church, his wife, and his family. The author repented to his church, but even more amazing was the REAL story behind the song. The author had been addicted to pornography for 16 years. He had pleaded and prayed to the Lord to be free, but had not been able to shake his addiction. The author stated this addiction caused such guilt and anguish that he literally became sick - his vommiting and nausea was real. He was so ashamed he couldnt tell his wife or his church that he wrote the song about Jesus enduring love - but under the guise of cancer. What an amazing story - of shame, guilt, and Jesus' love. Below are the lyrics. At first they didnt strike me as extremely deep. But given the circumstances behind it and upon further meditation - i think they express some of the sweetest truths about God and the gospel. Sin is so much worse than cancer and Christ bought that healing on the cross. To die from cancer is bad - to die from Sin is eternally worse. Here are the lyrics.
You hold my every moment
You calm my raging seas
You walk with me through fire
And heal all my disease
I trust in you
I trust in you
I believe
You're my healer
I believe
You are all i need
I believe
You're my portion
I believe
You're more than enough for me
Jesus, you're all i need
Nothing is impossible for you
Nothing is impossible
Nothing is impossible for you
You hold my world in your hands
4 comments:
Can you post an audio file of this song? That's an interesting story.
you can also check out the story on youtube. crazy story about where shame drives us. good post.
A reminder that God won't 'remove' your sin. He gives us free will to do what we wish but he will forgive us. Therein lies His grace.
"He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us."- Psalm 103:9-12
The great news of the gospel is that God does remove our sins from us. He doesn't promise to remove the consequences of our sins from us on this earth but in the cross our sins are nailed to Jesus Christ and as the old song says, "we bear them no more".
Thanks for your post anonymous.
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