Savoring Sundays: In Music

Over the past few days I've listened to this song a couple times.  I love how almost every line of the verses can be traced to specific Bible verses.  So much Truth wrapped in one song.  Today I decided to look up some of the verses.  It's an encouraging reminder of all that Jesus has done for us and also a good challenge to remember just Who it is we serve and how worthy and deserving our Great God is of all our praise and worship.  

In the darkness we were waiting
Without hope without light  - 

John 3:20 but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

Till from heaven You came running - 

John 1:4-5 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was mercy in Your eyes - 

Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved

To fulfill the law and prophets - 

Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have  not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

To a virgin came the Word - 

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin      shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

From a throne of endless glory - 

Matthew 25:31 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

To a cradle in the dirt - 

Luke 2:7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths         and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

To reveal the kingdom coming -                                                                                                  

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

And to reconcile the lost - 

2 Corinthians 5:19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

To redeem the whole creation - 

Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

You did not despise the cross - see Hebrews 12:2
For even in Your suffering - see Hebrews 12:2
You saw to the other side - 

Hebrews 12:2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Knowing this was our salvation -
Jesus for our sake You died - 

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

And the morning that You rose 
All of heaven held its breath
Till that stone was moved for good - 

Luke 12:1-2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

For the Lamb had conquered death - 

2 Timothy 1:10 And which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

And the dead rose from their tombs - 

Matthew 27:52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,

And the angels stood in awe 
For the souls of all who’d come
To the Father are restored