There's well-known worship songs like "Indescribable", "Holy is the Lord", "How great is our God" all packed in this one. Other pretty famous tracks include "Unfailing love" and "King of glory". The rest, like "Your grace is enough", "The way I was made", "Mighty is the power of the cross", "All bow down", "On our side" and "You do all things well", you might not know, but equally pleasant to the hear. More importantly, Chris Tomlin uses simple themes, one any congregation can sing their hearts out in worship. I read before in an interview that that's what he wanted, to write songs that anyone can relate to and worship using that.
I like Casting Crowns for their stories, especially Mark Hall with his uncanny ability to focus on specific issues. But I also like Chris Tomlin for his worship songs, albeit seemingly more general in nature. I'm listing both 'ends' because they both have their merits. And if writing worship music is to the glory of God, well, that's the most important.
I got to add though, the reason why I decided to post an entry on this album is the eleventh and last song on the album track - "You do all things well". It's a song that really grips my heart when I'm filled with doubt, when the future seems uncertain, when circumstances don't seem to let me praise God... Some might say it's masochism, clinging on to hope when everything shouts it's all futile.
And the song talks about how God does all things well. How ironic... Still it stirs my heart somehow.
"Star creator, wind breather... light from the heaven, touching the ground
You made it all, said let there be, and there was all that we see,
The sound of Your voice, the works of Your hand
You do all things well, You do all things well, You do all things well"
The qualities of God as Creator of all, in control of all. He created Mt. Everest, there is no mountain to high to surmount. He made the oceans deep, there is nothing that can be deeper than His love.
Hope, in the midst of all that is wrong. Light in the face of utter darkness.
There can be, and not only just glimmers, but the knowledge that when God does anything, He does it all to perfection.
I wonder why this album's called arriving. I suppose for me it's a reminder that I have arrived in the Kingdom of God.
