Reveal Your Love

There is a song we found awhile back called, Reveal Your Love. It was written for the group Sojourn for their album, Over the Grave: The Hymns of Isaac Watts, Volume 1. The minute we heard it we thought-THIS IS AWESOME! After searching the song and the meaning of it- It became even AWESOME-ER! (It’s a word)

Isaac Watts(Famous hymn-writer and theologian) recognized that people needed to see the gospel in the psalms and hymns of the church and that they needed to sing them in a way where they could understand the language and metaphors being made. Thank goodness! Because I know I get lost all the time in the fancy wording The Song was based in Watts hymn-”Lord if thine eye surveys our faults”(psalm 90, pt.2). For space sake I won’t post the original but I would recommend looking it up to see where the inspiration came from.

This is a song of loud crying out and of desperate despair:

Reveal your love and not your wrath alone
Let our experience prove the mercies of your throne
Our souls bowed down with heavy cares
Our flesh with pain oppressed
Our pain won’t give us rest
How long?

These lyrics portray the reality that God will pour out his wrath on people and that he will judge humanity. They also show the tension of being on the receiving end of God’s actions. Yikes!  This can be a hard pill to swallow and is not the first thing I like to think about when I think of the Lord. It is common to push this truth under the rug when speaking of God’s character, but nevertheless it IS part of his character.

The Wonderful part in having a relationship with God is that I am always learning more about Him, and growing in my understanding of Him. I know that while He is a God of wrath and judgement, He is also supremely good and perfect. And because of Christ, He hears our prayers when we ask for grace instead of Wrath. Thank you Lord!!

Below are the Lyrics and our recorded version of the song for your reflecting and listening pleasure Hope you enjoy! (The link will take you to media fire and you can download from there)

Reveal Your Love

Lord, if Your eyes survey our faults,    

and Your Justice grows severe,   

Your dreadful wrath exceeds our thoughts,   

and it burns beyond our fears, 

 Pre­-chorus    

You hear us when we speak,                    

and You pity all our groans,               

For Your mercy’s sake, You heal our broken bones,     

 Chorus    

Reveal Your Love, not Your Wrath alone,                               

Let experience prove the mercies of Your throne,   

Souls bow down with heavy cares,                              

Flesh with pain oppressed, our pain forbids us rest,                                                                  

Reveal Your Love!