Mitch McVicker
Album: Canticle of the Plains
Track: You Are All
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You Are All Lyrics Rich Mullins, Beaker, and Mitch McVicker
Vocals by Mitch McVicker
Ecclesiastes 3:11, Job 42:2, Second Thessalonians 1:11
And here You are.
Shinin' in a glory that I can see.
When I look beyond myself,
And I fall into the depths
Of Your love that beckons me.
Well, it fills my hungerin' soul with all the riches
That are hidden in the wonders that You do.
And in the words that you have spoken,
There's a word that echoes still.
And I can hear it in the silence of these hills.
Lord, You are all that the world could not be.
You are great and strong.
You are good.
Lord, You are all
And everything that I could ever need.
You are faith.
You are hope.
You are love.
Yes, You are love.
You are peace.
You're my most high,
So now I fall down on my knees and cry,
You are all.
And here we are,
In a light that showers
From things unseen.
Drawn from earth, dropped from the sky,
They have crept into our lives
And called us to believe.
In the one of whom the distant clouds bear witness,
He was wounded.
He was raised and glorified.
And His voice thunders in the heavens,
And it pulses through our veins.
And we can find salvation
In the One, the Name.
Lord, You are all that the world could not be.
You are great and strong.
You are good.
Lord, You are all,
And everything that I could ever need.
You are faith.
You are hope.
You are love.
Yes, You are love.
You are peace.
You're my most high,
So now I fall down on my knees and cry.
You are all.
Lord, You are all that the world could not be.
You are great and strong.
You are good.
Lord, You are all,
And everything that I could ever need.
You are faith.
You are hope.
You are love.
Yes, You are love.
You are peace.
You're my most high,
So now I fall down on my knees and cry.
You are all.
The play ends there. He is not a saint at the end of the show. It does not cover that. Of course, that happens much later in history. There are two ways of looking at saints. One is a saint as being someone who has been through this life and now lives in the presence of God, and that's all involved in the communion of saints from the apostles creed. And there's also the sense in which because we ... "saint" means "holy" or "sanctified" or "set apart," and I think there is a very real sense in which each of us should look at our own lives as being a life set apart unto God, and so there is I think a valid sense in which sainthood is not something ... there is that sense in which anyone who is a Christian, anyone who has been claimed by Christ is in a sense a saint, and the idea is that we should live as if we were ... whether or not we have achieved holiness, and whether or not we have experienced some sanctifying thing, I guess, to put it in sort of Nazarene terms ... "Whether or not we would call ourselves a saint, it's a good thing to live as if we were." The author, Jerry Bridges says that if you recognize that you're in the pursuit of holiness, then you're probably not really in it, because you shed yourself of all of that recognition and all of those things if you really are in the midst of it.
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