New Song

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Come Ye Sinners by Todd Agnew

Come ye sinners, poor and needy
Weak and wounded, sick and sore
Jesus ready stands to save you
Full of pity, love, and power

Come ye thirsty, come and welcome
God's free bounty glorify
True belief and true repentance
Every grace that brings you nigh

I will arise and go to Jesus
He will embrace me in His arms
In the arms of my dear Saviour
Oh, there are ten thousand charms

Come ye weary, heavy-laden
Lost and ruined by the fall
If you tarry until you're better
You will never come at all

I will arise and go to Jesus
He will embrace me in His arms
In the arms of my dear Saviour
Oh, there are ten thousand charms

Have you ever had a word or phrase that hits you? I mean REALLY hits you? I fully admit that I have a very obsessive personality. I get stuck on one thing and it's all consuming. This is not limited to music, but at the expense of saving too much exposure of my weakness, we'll stick with that. Whenever I get a new cd, or even worse, a new song, I listen to it NONSTOP for a ridiculous amount of time. Such is the case with this song. The lyrics to this song are so powerful. One phrase particularly "hits" me. "I will arise and go to Jesus". Perhaps the music is the reason the song and phrase are so powerful for me, or at least that is what caught my attention initially. His voice is so resolved when he sings his words, almost like each line is a conclusion that leads to this phrase, "I will arise and go to Jesus". It seems to be his conviction that he so boldly announces. What makes this phrase so moving is the word "arise". Since I am never just satisfied with taking things for face value, I need to know more about this word. While I want to say that I have some profound discovery, I cannot. I'll work on that! It's just so intense. Even without a word study, I feel like there is so much depth to this small word. It inspires so much more than just an action of coming or going to something. In this case, Jesus. I almost feel like the word calls you out of something old and into a brand new understanding. For some reason, I have recently fallen in love with words that are "old" because of how much meaning they seem to hold for me. Loaded and multiple meanings! All this makes me even more curious about this word and why it is so inspiring. The ironic part is, while I was talking to Natalie about recent thoughts of this word, we started to notice that a lot of the songs that have recently hit me have this idea of arising. One in particular is called "By Our Love". This song seems to be an explanation of the old campfire song "They'll Know We Are Christians by Our Love" and is extremely powerful. My favorite phrase in this song is "The time is now. Come Church, arise". Love it! Again, just a moving affect for me. It invokes such a huge desire for change in me.