Your Love Is Amazing

Monday June 30, 2014

Truth

Two famous Christian worship leaders and songwriters wrote the song “Hallelujah, Your Love is Amazing”. Brenton Brown was visiting Brian Doerksen in Canada. Brian was dealing with his “fussy son” while his wife was out running errands and trying to write songs with Brenton. At one point while Brian was sitting in the rocking chair trying to quiet his son, Brenton came into the room saying he had the lyrics to the verse of a song but not the chorus. “Your love is amazing, steady and unchanging. Your love is a mountain firm beneath my feet. Your love is a mystery— how You gently lift me—when I am surrounded, Your love carries me …”

Brian Doerksen continues the story, “And so with Isaiah squirming and fussing, I called out just to get Brenton off my case: “Why don’t you do this for the chorus?”— and I sang out the melody literally as you know it—“Hallelujah … Hallelujah … Hallelujah … Your love makes me sing,”—and then sang it again!”¹

Hallelujah is a word that contains two parts: “hallelu” for praise and the second part “jah” a shortened form of the ancient name for God -- Yahweh. On good days and difficult days, God's love in us is what quiets us. God's love surrounding us is what gives us stability and peace. God's love growing in us gives us courage to go out and do amazing things that God planned for us to do. That’s worth a “Praise you Lord” flowing from our hearts to our lips.

The prophet Zephaniah paints a picture that mirrors Brian Doerksen's story and the truth in this lovely song that has been sung in churches and touched hearts for decades.

The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” (Zephaniah 3:17 NIV)