Robbie Seay Band
I came across the Robbie Seay Band (pronounced SEE) a few months ago, but realized I hadn’t listened to them much since downloading their latest album, Give Yourself Away. The second track is “Song of Hope (Heaven Come Down).” Its message on the Incarnation has been resonating with my soul as I’ve studied for finals in the last week. I’ve probably listened to this song 50 times since the weekend. Since God Himself is the great good of the Gospel, it follows that for our broken yet beautiful world He is in Christ our song of Hope. May we be compelled to love other sacrificially as God demonstrated towards us.
Here are the lyrics:
All things bright and beautiful You are
All things wise and wonderful You are
In my darkest night, You brighten up the skies
A song will riseI will sing a song of hope
Sing along
God of heaven come down
Heaven come down
Just to know that You are near is enough
God of heaven come down, heaven come downAll things new
I can start again
Creator, God
Calling me Your friend
Sing praise, my soul
To the Maker of the skies
A song will riseI will sing a song of hope
Sing along
God of heaven come down
Heaven come down
Just to know You and be loved is enough
God of heaven come down, heaven come down
- Download this song for free at the band’s promo site freeRSB.com.
The eighth song on the album is “Stay.” It begins:
Hope is the call
That is ringing in my soul
But I can’t pretend that I see
Much light in front of me
The blindness in the fog, to not be able to comprehend the light, must be overcome. God, you must intervene — You are our only Hope! And the verse in the middle of the song that struck me so distinctly is this one:
Pride is the friend
Who betrays me in the end
Stealing joy, as it goes
Leaves me longing for a home
How true! I find that my greatest sin is pride. All of my sins come from my pride, my self-sufficiency and self-reliance. It is the “far idol” that stands behind my “near idols” (to borrow a phrase from Tim Keller). It is the supposed “friend,” which of course does nothing by betray me in the end. The lyrics of the song continue to the end:
I’ll wait to find You here
Though I’m thrown away
I can’t give up
I’ll wait to see You here
I have gone astray
And I believe I’ll sing until You’re here
Though I’m lost and afraid
I can’t give up
I wait to find You here
I have gone astrayYou will always stay beside me
And Your sun will rise above me
And Your light will shine upon me
And Your skies are clear above me
And You will always stay
You will always stay
December 17th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
No believing in “coincidence” but rather “co-instants” or sychronisms in God’s providence, I heard “Song of Hope” and the line “calling me Your friend” caught my ear the same day (Nov. 28) as I read in the “Joy & Hope” devotional, “I have called you friends” from John 15:15. I bought the song and have also listened to it multiple times (approaching or maybe more than 50 times :o). I’ve got lots of cool experiances of God’s amazing but thankfully not incredible (as in unbelievable)timing in my life (I’m in my 60th year)(and I like parentheses).
Just today I’ve been sensitized to the “All things new, I can start again” line. I don’t need to keep repeating the same sin. I need His mercy new every morning (and every instant) because of what I’ve been. That echoes the idea of “preach the Gospel to yourself every day.”
It’s late-ish, gotta go.