new favorite song

you bring by hillsong united. my new favorite song. musically its awesome. the guitar parts chime and sparkle, the bass parts flood your chest cavity, and the drums become the beat that drives your heart.

but lyrically its confusing. and in the confusing parts you have to thin. and in that, its even better than the music side.

my favorite part ofthe song:

first verse, first half.

"Oh You bring hope to the hopeless
And light to those in the darkness
And death to life
Now Im alive "
you bring death to life now i'm alive. at first i thought of it the same way he says the light to dark and hope to hopeless. where it seemed like he was saying christ brings death with him and puts it in where life (AKA deathless-ness) used to be, the same way he brings hope with him and puts it where hopelessness and despair used to be. the same way he takes light and puts it in where dark used to be (AKA light-lessness) in that case he Must be talking about chirsts death, and then immediately he talks about being alive himself. which is pretty cool. to state it that way. to point out it is a good and amazing thing that christ brings hope and light to those without, then brings his own death out of love.


but lyrically that doesn't work. cause the beauty is not from Christs death. its from his ressurection. without the resurrection Christianity loses its point. the good teacher, the morale man, the rabbi is a bad teacher whose students made up a story of him coming back to life, the morale man a liar, and the rabbi simply denied by the jews if we take away Christs power, and thus his ressurection.
and besides, the pattern of the song is about bringing bad things into a better state of existance. the hopeless have hope. the ones in the dark have light. so the ones in life cannot be given death and told it is good.
rather, jesus brings hope with him and gives it to the hopeless. he brings light and shines it in the dark places. and by doing those tings he takes the dead. he takes us. he takes death itself and brings it into life.
if death is simply the lack of life for something that should be alive, and you bring it to life, you make a bad thing better.

he goes and grabs death and brings it to life, then we are alive.

if you could see my facial expressions and hear the way i want this to be emphasized (from every rooftop in every city in the world. and on the barn roofs between the cities too)you would see that blog words will never do justice to the vast expanse that is how AMAZING our God is and how much i am in awe of it ( the first part you can tell even without hearing/reading what i have to say/write about this song, but the part where i am in awe is the important part.