My big sister made a CD for me with this song on it and I just fell in love with it. The words create a powerful paradox. I have begun to really embrace the paradoxes of Christianity. I think the more you walk with Christ, the more you get to experience the reality of the paradoxes and the more you have to praise God for.
The part that convicts me and encourages me most is: "although my humbling wouldn't be my decision, it‚s here Your glory shines so bright." I think humility is one of the hardest things about being a Christian yet one of the most attractive things about a person. I tell God that I want Him to be glorified, but in order to really mean it, I need to walk humbly.
When I was searching for the lyrics to this song on the internet, I found out that it comes from a collection of Puritan poems written by John Bunyan, Isaac Watts, and others. Some of them never even meant for their prayers to be published. They wrote them just to share their innermost thoughts with God. How wise their words are!
Whenever I‚m in the valley, I‚m always encouraged to know that God is molding me and making me more like Him. Even little valleys, like the whole college visiting/applying/deciding business has taught me to trust Him more. As annoying as it is to not know exactly where I‚m supposed to go or what I‚m supposed to study, God has helped me find joy in the process, joy in not knowing, and joy in just trusting.
"Valley of Vision" (Sovereign Grace Ministries)
When You lead me to the valley of vision
I can see You in the heights
And though my humbling wouldn't be my decision
It‚s here Your glory shines so bright
So let me learn that the cross precedes the crown
To be low is to be high
That the valley's where You make me more like Christ
Let me find Your grace in the valley
Let me find Your life in my death
Let me find Your joy in my sorrow
Your wealth in my need
That You're near with every breath
In the valley
In the daytime there are stars in the heavens
But they only shine at night
And the deeper that I go into darkness
The more I see their radiant light
So let me learn that my losses are my gain
To be broken is to heal
That the valley's where Your power is revealed
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Wow, it's so true that the most truly beutiful prayers come from a truly humble heart. Like Jesus said about the Pharisees and Sadducees making long lenghthy prayers in public, their prayers may seem all fancy and pretty but God sees the heart, and i bet even to the human ear their prayers were not as sweet the psalms, written by "a man after God's own heart" and other great people. It's like "the Beauty of Simplicity"
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