Series - 3 - "You Deserve The Glory"

5 October 2009 at 00:17

From the mists of lovely worship times during 2007 or 2008, this wonderful song burned itself into my being. 

There's probably very, very few things that are more liberating than giving God the glory due Him. Nothing frees the heart more.....nothing sets our feet in more spacious places. No soul is set free more than that soul that moves itself out of the spotlight and puts the spotlight back where it belongs - our LORD. 

Terry MacAlmon wrote this simple, powerful song. His live recordings of it are very informal, very much just informal worship gatherings, precisely the kind of beginnings for a song like this. The soul seems to soar, soar high, in worship, with this song. Reminds me of these: 

He lifted me out of the slimy pit, 

out of the mud and mire; 

he set my feet on a rock 

and gave me a firm place to stand. 

- Psalm 40:2 

And again: 

You have not handed me over to the enemy 

but have set my feet in a spacious place. 

- Psalm 31:8 

Lots of "evolution" in the chord structures - on the "Lord we lift our hands in worship" line, whether it's a D minor chord or B flat is worth wondering.....you might want to let the Spirit lead, as at all other times. Either way, it doesn't take anything from the music:):) I am personally attached to the B flat, complicated nutcase that I am...but of late I just wonder whether the D minor will keep my mind from wandering too much and taking the glory from God. Again, there's the "you do miracles so great" chord - is it just a simple bass progression from C to B to A minor or is there a more complicated E seventh there with a B bass note? Again, purely academic. Terry himself does just a simple bass note progression from C to B to A minor; and predictably, the complicated nutcase yours truly is attached, right on cue, to not just an E chord, but an E seventh with B bass note, WITH intricate timing for the change!!!!! These complications were visited upon me, I might add, by the first (and still very superlative) version of this song I heard from some band called New Life or something like that - it had all those complicated chord structures. 

This is what I'd say......let God have all the glory. No one deserves it more, or gets it less. I can tell you from the countless number of times I've played this song during communion - give God all the glory. Let your soul go without restraint or reservation and sing: 

For You are great, 

You do miracles so great, 

There is no one else like you 

There is no one else like you 

For You are great, 

You do miracles so great, 

There is no one else like you 

There is no one else like you 

See if your soul still remains caged.........after this. He is still the one that sets us free.