Do you truly allow God to be your God of everything? Most of us want to let Him be, but tend to hold back certain parts of our lives back for different reasons. This week our song comes from Bebo Norman and here is the story behind the song in his own words.
“‘God of My Everything’ is a prayer that I wrote watching my older brother’s 15-year struggle with addiction and recovery. It is a difficult thing to speak openly in our Christian communities about what it means for a fellow believer to struggle with something as culturally frowned upon as addiction…but it has been perhaps the most inspiring story that I have ever witnessed. I have seen firsthand what it means for someone to truly offer God everything…every lie, every deceptive word, every foolish thought, every weakness, every single thing finally laid down before the mercy of God. I watched God step into the humiliation and the shame and the brokenness of addiction (and all the peripheral damage that goes along with it) and impart a brand of goodness and healing that is simply incomprehensible. We hear it said over and over again that God wants us “just as we are,” but I don’t think we really believe it. This song is a prayer for God to truly be the God of everything…every single part of us…the good and the grotesque. To acknowledge that God is the God of our most shameful failures, our fears, our faults, our brokenness, and even our addictions – and yet his love for us DOES NOT CHANGE – is to acknowledge that God is truly the God of our salvation, our peace, our hope and our absolute healing.”
God of My Everything by Bebo Norman
Oh God of heaven come and hem me in
Gather the pieces that are broken
Show me the wonder of You again
Oh God of heaven
God of my hope God of my need
God of my pain that no one else will ever see
God of my healing God of my strength
God who has always and will forever reign
God of my everything
In all creation You call my name
In all the beauty that this world displays
Still I’m the one for whom Your heart aches
In all creation
God of my hope God of my need
God of my pain that no one else will ever see
God of my healing God of my strength
God who has always and will forever reign
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God of my everything
God of my everything
And when the mountains shake
You are my God You never change
And when the earth gives way
You are still God You never change
God of my hope God of my need
God of my pain that no one else will ever see
God of my healing God of my strength
God who has always and will forever reign
God of my everything
God of my everything
God of my everything
God of my everything
Oh God of heaven come and hem me in
Gather the pieces that are broken
Show me the wonder of You again
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