I'm pretty confident that most of you have heard the Chris Tomlin song "God of This City". It's a great song. We sing it all the time in churches in America. I've always like it, I've always thought it was powerful. But this month it took on a whole new meaning. If you haven't heard it before…..here are the lyrics.
You're the God of this city.
You're the King of these people.
Your're the Lord of this nation.
You're the light in this darkness.
You're the hope to the hopeless.
You're the peace to the restless.
There is no one like our God. There is no one like our God.
Greater things have yet to come. Greater things are still to be done in this city.
Pretty sweet right? Who wouldn't want to sing these truths out? Every night before we went out to do bar outreach we worshiped and prayed together and one night we sang this one. Afterwards our contact ,Celeste, asked us if we had ever heard where this song came from. None of us had…so she told us the story. It really stuck with me.
There was a group of people in Thailand from America doing a mission trip, doing outreach in the bars. They were out in one of the bars and one of the guys asked if he could sing and play the guitar on stage. The bar manager was totally fine with whatever, as long as the group of people continued buying drinks. No problem. So the guys got on stage and this song is what came from their hearts and out of their mouths. They sang these things over the workers in the bars, over the customers sitting in the bars, and they proclaimed these things over the city…over the country. In a place that is so dark, they spoke out light without anyone even really knowing what was going on probably. They worshiped God in the middle of darkness. I think she said they did this for hours. Proclaiming truths and proclaiming freedom over Thailand over and over and over. Could you imagine? I get this sweet image in my head of this happening and I am left with chills and almost in tears. Such a powerful thing. I love this song even more now.
So even though there is a lot of darkness, evil, and wickedness in this place God is STILL King of these people. He stil reigns. He still is victorious. And greater things are coming to this city. There is no one like our God.
He is King of these people. He is hope to the hopeless. He is the light in the darkness. He is peace to the restless. He is God of this city. Greater things are yet to come. We believe. We believe in you God.
