How Great is Our God

I encourage you to listen to the song as you read this blog. This song has greatly inspired me in my life.
How Great is Our God
This song has become one of the most contemporary popular songs over the last few years. And for good reason. The message is simple but profound. The music is beautiful and the lyrics are well written. It is a great worship song.



However the song holds a little bit more personal meaning for me. A few years ago when the song first came out I fell in love with it. Little did I know my mom was falling in love at the same time.

"Hey, I love this song!" I cried, cranking up the volume.

My mom nodded in agreement. "It's a good song."

We sang along and thought nothing of it.

Every time the song came on the radio we turned up the volume and listened eagerly. We loved that song and we were delighted to share it too.



As time came to pass it started to become known as "our song". And once it did it started popping up in weird places.

We'd get in a fight one day in the car and then over the silence of our anger we'd hear those soft opening words "the splendour of a king..." And the fight would be over.

I'd miss my mom one day while she was off at boy scout camp with my brother. I turned on the radio and heard that song.

I can remember a time when my mom, brother and I were all in tears in the car over some stupid thing. While we all cried that song came on. Our tears increased although we were laughing at the same time.



How Great is our God had been my comforter and has spoken to me many a time when I've needed God and His patience and love. It has probably been the song that will bring me to emotion the quickest. No other has touched me the same way.

This week has been hard dealing with homesickness. I was comforted once by a long prayer session in the chapel where I randomly flipped to the section in 2nd Corinthians

"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us." 2nd Corinthians 1: 3-7



The words warmed and comforted me and I have found myself helping other girls with homesickness over the past few days. It has not been easy, but God has helped me through it.

Similarly today there was still a slight feeling of homesickness, but God brought a small blessing to me. One of the songs we sang in church today happened to be...yes you guessed it...How Great is our God. God has been so good to me.

Another song with a slightly lesser meaning is Great is Thy Faithfulness (feel free to listen to this too). When my mother and father found out about me for the first time they sang Great is Thy Faithfulness in church the next Sunday. I was a gift from God. God was faithful to my parents in delivering me. My mom has always seen that song as our song too. And on Wednesday we sang that one in chapel too. Both Great is thy Faithfulness and How Great is Our God were a part of the last church women's program I ever attended and I wept when I heard them. Now when I have heard both in this new place I have been overjoyed.



God is helping me to overcome my sorrow of leaving home by providing these two beautiful, comforting songs. I am delighted to have reminders of my family, and all the more delighted that they have filled me with joy rather than sadness. I love and miss my mother, father, brother and dog so terribly but God is making my longing more bearable and for that I am thankful. All I can say is this:

How Great is Our God.