Recently I have been listening to a lot of worship music. This is not entirely out of the ordinary seeing as every week I choose five songs to have for Fusion Sunday Night Worship, but recently there has been one song that really has resonated with me.
The song “Rescue” by Desperation Band is a short song, but it is very powerful.
Here is the chorus
I need you Jesus
To come to my rescue
Where else can I go
There’s no other name by
Which I am saved
Capture me with grace
I will follow you
Today when I was walkin around campus I sat down on a stone bench in the Texas Wesleyan Lawn and I was struck with a new meaning to this song. At first glance of course it is about Jesus coming to our rescue, but in what way?
How often do we let meaningless things consume our worries or our lives?
How often do we not worry enough about the poor?
How often do we really not buy into what Jesus really said and commanded us to do and be?
Ever feel that you get in the way of Jesus speaking the gospel to someone through you?
So, that prayer doesn’t seem so strange now.
So I pray that in my life today and tomorrow and forever how long I am blessed to live in this world that God would rescue me from myself and that He would bless others through me and in spite of me.
Ultimately I pray that God would place himself so present in my soul and heart that when people see me they don’t see me, but they see the glorious love and grace of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Because as the song says where else can we go but to the glorious presence of the Savior, who loved us enough to save us, even though we didn’t deserve such a love.
Yes, Father God capture us with your Grace.
Now, that means something. That could change the world.