The new Matt Redman album ‘Your Grace Finds Me’ duly arrived in our household this week (still waiting for the Phil Wickham album, alas…!) As always, I love the songs. But as always, I love also the heart behind the songs – the fact that Matt Redman pays such generous tribute to all who have been involved in the making of the album (from the songwriters to the musicians to the artist who designed the album cover to the myriad backstage people who normally never see the limelight), the fact that he is involved in a creativity that spans the arts as a whole (if you watch the video below, notice the artist drawing the lyrics out behind the musicians), the fact that he is so aware of God’s grace and mercy in the everyday and the mundane as well as those special moments of life. We all need daily reminders of grace. It’s the very thing that makes life worth living.
“It’s there in the newborn cry.
There in the light of every sunrise.
There in the shadows of this light:
Your great grace.
It’s there on the mountaintop.
There in the everyday and the mundane.
There in the sorrow and the dancing:
Your great grace
Oh, such grace.
From the creation to the cross
There from the cross into eternity
Your grace finds me
Yes, Your grace finds me.
It’s there on a wedding day.
There in the weeping by the graveside.
There in the very breath we breathe:
Your great grace.
The same for the rich and poor,
The same for the saint and for the sinner,
Enough for this whole wide world.
Your great grace
Oh, such grace.
From the creation to the cross
There from the cross into eternity
Your grace finds me
Yes, Your grace finds me.
There in the darkest night of the soul.
There in the sweetest songs of victory.
Your grace finds me,
Yes, Your grace finds me.
So I’m breathing in Your grace
And I’m breathing out Your praise.
I’m breathing in Your grace:
Forever I’ll be
Breathing in Your grace
And I’m breathing out Your praise.
I’m breathing in Your grace:
Forever I’ll be
Breathing in Your grace
And I’m breathing out Your praise
Breathing in Your grace
Forever, God, forever, God.” (‘Your Grace Finds Me’, Matt Redman)
‘Your Grace Finds Me’, Matt Redman (recorded live version)