Ten Thousand...

It's been a couple weeks now since updating my blog, which is something that saddens me because quite honestly I love writing. Life gets busy though and I plan on making some time next Monday (my Sabbath) to write. For now though I'd love to share with anyone who happens to be checking this out some beautiful song lyrics. It's the song "Ten Thousand" by John Mark McMillan (the guy who also wrote How He Loves).

Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest
Ball bearings drawn to the magnetic breath
Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears
Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years
For ten thousand graves yawning unlocked and unlatched
Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their backs
Ten thousand tombs gaping wide singing the praise
Of ten thousand bodies unlaced and unlaid

As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores
Where the blood of a husband silences wars
For the girl who rises to meet him
And she sings

World, I have overcome you
World, I have overcome you
World, I have overcome
By my song and the blood of a son

Ten thousand rivers
Run red like my veins
Where the bones of men hum
Like a rattling cage
For sinew to cling to
And wind to remain
In ten thousand lungs
For ten thousand days
Breathing like a choir
Of holes in the ground
Where the cynical have lain
Where the cynical go down
Save the gravity of time
Lets go of her drowned
Like ten thousand sparrows
Unlocked and unwound

As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's shores
Where the blood of a husband silences wars
For the girl who rises to meet him
And she sings

World, I have overcome you
World, I have overcome you
World, I have overcome
By my song and the blood of a son


The lyrics are a bit obscure yes, but it is their obscurity and truth that I find so incredibly beautiful. I love the line in the prechorus, "Where the blood of a husband silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him." What a great picture of Christ as the husband and the church His bride. And it is that line that suddenly allows the chorus to be so very relevant. Her singing that she has overcome the world is actually the entire body of Christ rejoicing in their redemption and salvation that was so costly bought by the son of God. It is a song of freedom from the chains of sin and death for anyone who is in Christ and it is a song of pure desire for our Lord. Wonderful.