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i just wrote a reflection on the song but deleted it... I guess the lyrics speak for themselves smile

Lyrics:

You’re worth
So much to me
But I can’t buy your love
It’s free

You’re purer
Than mountain streams
So I will drink you in
And be cleaned

Jesus Lord
Your mercy flows
And overflows
To me
I will love you
I won’t be quiet
For in you I am so free

The same blood that sanctifies
Is the same blood that justifies

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Ben Howcroft
Thursday 22nd April 2010

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Matt Jones

29 Apr 10 at 7:55

Great tune Ben!
Is it too much to ask for you to re-write the reflection?! Who’s singing the BV’s?

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Ben Howcroft

20 May 10 at 14:11

you’re right.. ‘the lyrics speak for themselves’.. how lazy!

i was noodling on the guitar thinking about the word ‘worthy’. I often find that I can sing familiar words and I feel I’m not quite ‘getting it’.. what exactly does it mean for Jesus to be worthy? I settled on ‘you’re worth so much to me’ because it’s a personal application.. I imagine Jesus might ask me, am I precious in theory or really precious to you?
In the light of my thoughts on that word I remembered that his ‘worth-y’ love that is precious to me can’t be bought. It’s free! (i should have put an exclamation mark in the lyrics).
I guess the mountain stream bit followed on from thinking about, well what exactly is precious about him? and that came to mind. He gives me life not death.

(the original reflection wasnt this long!)

The chorus is my expression and response that truth, that his precious mercy flows, then keeps flowing to me.

Ok so then I remembered a bit of theology (MTS wahay) that his blood that flowed and justified - made me right with God- is also still flowing and is sanctifying me- from glory to glory, being renewed and transformed in the image of Christ-

(2 Corinthians 3v17)
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

which reminds me of the ‘free’ aspect of the song.. on reflection there’s a double meaning of ‘free’ there. Jesus costly love is free to us, leading is to freedom by his Spirit.

Oh and due to the modern marvel of recording equipment   I’m also singing backing vox.

I remember when I was 5 or 6, my primary school teacher played us a recording of her son, and told us that he was playing all the instruments at once. For the longest time I thought that was literal. You asked for a reflection, you’re getting my autobigraphy wink 


I’d welcome critical feedback if anyone has any thoughts.

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