This is a new song for me, but one I’m very thankful to have learned from our international church here in Caravan City. Like we see in this song, I really appreciate the way that 20Schemes Music/His Estate blends stirring melody with blunt and biblical lyrics. How many worship songs do you know that include lines like, “Nowhere left to hide for the abuser?”
Last week, I was at a small conference with a couple dozen cross-cultural workers also engaged in reaching our people group in this region and in the global diaspora. The most open segment of our people group and the one with the most churches is also the one who has witnessed the most wartime atrocities in this past decade. Over the days we met, we heard tragic testimony from several believers of all of the evil they’ve witnessed, yet how in the midst of it God is powerfully building his church.
Since we were singing songs in both English and our local language, I was asked to lead a couple of the worship times. Reflecting on what we had heard from these local believers, I chose this song as one of the English ones we sang. It was new for maybe everyone there, but, I hope, well worth the learning curve.
This is the chorus:
We long for that day when Jesus comes again
When sorrow and pain will all come to an end
When justice is done and evil cast away
Oh, may we all be found in Christ that day
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