Marvelous Light

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Here's a song by Charlie Hall that I was getting in to this morning on the way to work. The people in the vehicles beside around me probably thought I was a weirdo. Oh well, I guess they were right:

Because its so hard to get the feel of a song just by the lyrics, you can listen to sample in .wma format:


Verse 1
I once was fatherless,
a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me,
Awakened me, from my sleep

Verse 2
Your love it beckons deeply,
a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come
And take this life, take your life.

Pre-chorus
Sin has lost it's power,
death has lost it's sting.
From the grave you've risen
VICTORIOUSLY!

Chorus
Into marvelous light I'm running,
Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross you are the truth,
You are the life, you are the way

Verse 3
My dead heart now is beating,
My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs.
Now I'm free. now I'm free!

Bridge
Lift my hands and spin around,
See the light that i have found.
Oh the marvelous light
Marvelous light

Lift my hands and spin
See the light within...

Has anyone ever noticed that the "worship" songs we sing don't necessarily seem to line up with how we live our so-called "Christian" lives? This is a song about freedom, the absence of shame and guilt, the doing-away-with of what separates us from Christ, the marvelous light and life we find in Jesus, and much more. So how does that reflect our Sunday to Sunday Christianity?