I really wanted to do something other than David Crowder this week since I’ve already done two of his songs, but everyone at Origins already knows the Hillsong United stuff, and this song really fits with the message that Brannen is preaching this week (that was a run-on sentence wasn’t it?). Well, Crowder isn’t the original artist – I’m not sure who is. And really, this is a pretty old school song, but a lot of people at Origins aren’t seasoned church folk at all, so this may be new to you. On to the song itself and how it impacts me…
I find it strange that we are so quick to praise unimportant events in our life, but tend to be so quiet concerning God. Think about it, “have you seen such and such movie!?” or “did you see that catch!?” or “that was the best weekend ever!” or even “you’ve got to try this beer!” The act of praise comes naturally to us, we praise when we experience something that stirs up excitement in us. Yet when is the last time you went to work on Monday morning and when asked how your weekend was you responded with, “it was awesome, I had an incredible encounter with the God yesterday at church.”?
This song starts out with the charge “make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth” then acknowledges that creation itself is crying out to the Lord. Finally it hits the Crowder-added bridge of “I will not be silent, I will not be quiet anymore.” I’m guessing he had thought the same thing I just mentioned above and has a deep desire to proclaim the goodness of our God. I’m excited about the message this week and I hope this song moves from being a cool lyric to a reality in our lives that we will not be quiet about our God who loves us with reckless abandon.
Disclaimer: I didn’t do a lot of takes on this recording and listening back makes me cringe a little. It’s been way too long since I’ve done studio recording with guitar and it shows in how bad I change the timing throughout this video…I think I started off way too slow and kept wanting to speed it up. Please forgive…I’ll see if I can set up a click track for next week.
