June 17, 2009
Hillsong United’s New Album ☆☆☆☆
First listen wasn’t won over by it… but since being acquainted with the lyrics, my heart has been moved and feed by the tunes on this album.
I guess the abulm titled song, Tear Down the Walls, acts as an anthem that that challenges us to look at the world from a different perspective:
Tear down the walls see the world
Is there something we have missed
Turn from ourselves
Look beyond
There is so much more than this…
Let love tear down these walls
That all creation would
Come back to You
It’s all for You
This album has some stadium sized songs of celebration ( Your Name High, More than Anything, Freedom is Here) and some beautiful ballad-esque (Oh You Bring, Soon, You Hold me Now) of prayerful reflection.
The thing that has stood out in this album is the eschatological hope and kingdom longing woven in the lyrics. So many of the songs encourage us to look ahead to the time soon when our King is coming, robed in righteousness and crowned with love, when creation lives in peace, when there will be no weeping, no hurt or pain, no suffering, no darkness, no sick or lame, no hiding and where shame is forgotten, for eternity!
But greater than all these things is that it will be a place where Jesus is:
“I will be with the one I love,
with unveiled face I’ll see him,
then my soul will be satisfied,
soon and very soon”
- Soon, Brooke Fraser -
My Favourite Songs:
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