"Beautiful Mercy" is easily one of my favorite songs! I've never really thought about why I love it so much, but today I realized that's its because it resonates with what the Lord has been doing in my life over the last few (or 10!) years. In it Laura Hacket sings:
There is no pitt too deep
that Jesus cannot reach
there is no sorrow too strong
that will overtake his beloved ones
And He's brought me to the wilderness
where I will learn to sing
And He lets me know my barrenness
so I will learn to lean
Yes He's brought me to this wilderness
where I will learn to sing
and He lets me know my barrenness
so I will learn to lean
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so kind oh beautiful mercy
do what you have to do
Jealous Lover
Do what you have to do (You know the best way)
oh Beautiful Mercy
do what you have to do
Jealous Lover
do what you have to do
So I will sing
yes I will sing
BEAUTIFUL MERCY… Can we call it mercy in the midst of suffering, heartache, and trials?… It doesn't seem like that should make sense, but that's why I love this song! It doesn't make sense to our logic, but it's so true. It is God's mercy that takes all the hard things of life, allows us to experience them, and experience them deeply, and from that He teaches us to trust Him and gives us a song to sing where others can hear of His greatness! Just like Paul and Silas singing in the prison in Acts 16:25-34. It doesn't make logical sense to sing when your in prison, but there they were "praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them". We find out that the guard and his whole family became believers that night! The Love of the Lord compels us to do things that don't fit the norm, but in that, the story of His greatness and His infinite love for humanity is told.
It is in the wilderness where there is nothing else to satisfy us that we can look to the savior and realize that He is the only one that we need. Somehow in this place we can see things for what they are… the scales are removed and we are no longer blinded by the lie that anything else will ever satisfy us. It is here we learn "to sing" a song of Joy… Joy that surpasses our understanding.
And It is in the bareness of our own inability that we learn "to lean". It is where we learn to depend on our creator for every breath, thought, and circumstance that comes and goes.
In my tirals I come face to face with my inability and my lack of control over every situation I'm faced with.
In my trials I am more sure than at any other time that I truly need Him.
In my trials I learn to pursue my creator with all my heart because He is sovereign and He is good and wherever He is at is where I want to be.
If anyone read my "about me" blog I talk of several defining moments over the course of my life. For anyone who knows me, you probably already know most of what that includes. For anyone who doesn't know me I'm sure if we spend anytime together you will hear me talk about them at some point in our conversation. Tha is because these events have EVERYTHING to do with who I am, and how the Lord has changed me. I didn't realize it until recently but I can see over this last decade that the Lord has taught me to sing… and sing with a joyful heart. The song doesn't arise out of obligation or out of tradition, or anyting like that, but its a river of Joy that He has somehow placed in my heart as He walked me through every one of these trials. I even asked someone the other day "do you ever just feel like singing because you can't contain it? He looked at me like I might be a little crazy. ha. But, you know what?… some days I do… a lot of days actually. And the BEAUTIFUL part is that it rarely has to do with any specific event or circumstance in my life… there is just something in my spirit that feels like leaping with joy. I can't explain it. I hope some of you reading this get me…. I certainly didn't start out this way, but I am so thankful that the Lord has brought me to this place!
shelley
