Significance....

As we approach Resurrection Day, there is this song that keeps haunting me. It’s not my typical song, because the band is a bit more “raucous” than I usually care for. But my niece introduced me to some of the band’s more “mellow” music, & some of it is DEEP STUFF! I guess it’s because the writer of this song GETS IT, and somehow gets ME...

I can’t count the number of times that I felt like an insignificant nothing before I knew Jesus. Some of my teen years were the darkest in my life, during a time when I had declared myself an atheist, and the entire world felt completely dark, pointless, and bereft of hope. If there was no God, there could be no future, no chance for a heaven or a loving Father above. No hope. Just an endless sky...

Gradually, He brought people into my life who shared His love with me. And slowly the hope was born in me that maybe there really could be a God. Maybe there really was more to life than just an empty, endless sky. I will never forget the day that I let myself fully believe in His existence again. Although I had not yet accepted Him as MY Lord, there was such joy in being able to hope again! I knew that He was “up there somewhere” and my world became a bit brighter.

The day I knelt before Him and gave Him my life completely is long past me now, but is the day that I treasure above all others. That joy fills me as I write this, but I will also always remember the darkness before knowing Him. I know what it’s like to feel lost in a sea of people with no hope, because I was.

Now, as a Christian, no matter how insignificant I sometimes feel, or how “lost in the sea” I feel, there is always HIM. There is always HOPE. I will never be alone again.

“Just one in a million faces”... Maybe, but MY face is one that HE loves and cherishes. He died for ME. He gave His life for ME.That’s where my meaning and self-worth come from. I hope yours does as well.

I see the city lights all around me
Everyone’s obscured
Ten million people each with their problems
Why should anyone care?

In Your eyes I can see:
I am not just a man
That’s been lost in this world,
Lost in a sea of faces.

Your body’s the bread,
Your blood is the wine,
Because You traded Your life for mine.

Sometimes my life, it feels so trivial,
Immersed in the greatness of space.
Yet somehow You still find the time for me;
It’s then You show me Your love.

In Your eyes I can see
And in Your arms I will be, yeah
I am not just a man
That’s been lost in this world,
Lost in a sea of faces.

Your body’s the bread,
Your blood is the wine,
Because You traded Your life for mine.

If only my one heart was all You gained from, all it cost,
Well, I know, You would have still been a Man
With a reason to willingly offer Your life.

I am not just a man
That’s been lost in this world,
Lost in a sea of faces.
Your body’s the bread,
Your blood is the wine,
Because You traded Your life for mine.

I am not just a man
That’s been lost in this world,
Lost in a sea of faces.
Your body’s the bread,
Your blood is the wine,
Because You traded Your life for mine.

Just one in a million faces.

~Kutless (Album: Sea of Faces, 2004)