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| "You Make Me Aright"by Paul Lytle
Footsteps heard in the Garden Twisted limbs and broken bones Find me down, Footsteps heard in the Garden, Twisted limbs and broken bones Find me down, Father God, * * *
The backbone of Christian music, in my eyes, is "Amazing Grace." I have a particular fondness for that song as a musical work, of course, but the lyrics capture the essence of the Christian experience. Where we once were lost, now we are found. We hear that theme over and over again in Christian verse, and CV will not avoid it. It is the most true argument I can make for Christ. I was lost; now I’m found. I am interested in two instances in the Bible where God walks through a garden. The first, in Genesis, is Eden. Adam and Eve have eaten of the fruit, and God comes to them. The second is Gethsemane, where Christ prays before his crucifixion. The disciples all asleep, and Jesus comes to them to scold them. Both times, we are set upon a series of events in which God is working to set things right. In Genesis, the healing takes considerably longer, we constantly see God intervening to straighten things out. The song represents this intervention with the appearance of the cloud from Exodus. In the latter example, our complete salvation comes much more quickly. We can see that salvation clearly in Peter. That very night, he denies Christ three times, but by the time we get to Acts, he is speaking out in public in the name of Jesus. We once were naked, hiding from God. We once were denying that we even knew him. But now we are made complete. It is nothing short of a miracle. -Paul |
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