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Sunday, January 12, 2020

Tauren Wells: known

I'm so glad someone has finally written a song about this. I believe it is the deepest heart cry of a person: to be fully known and still fully loved. This includes all of the deep dark secrets that we would take to the grave with us. This includes all of the hidden failures and disappoints we harbor deep within. This includes all of the buried pain that we have stuffed and suppressed, locked away in some secret soul closet. 

The good news is that God already knows all of these things about us and He still loves us.  He showed us this when we were at our worst, He loved us still and came to save us. "But Christ proved God’s passionate love for us by dying in our place while we were still lost and ungodly!" (Romans 5:8 TPT). 
And there is still much more to say of his unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in my sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God. 10 So if while we were still enemies, God fully reconciled us to himself through the death of his Son, then something greater than friendship is ours. Now that we are at peace with God, and because we share in his resurrection life, how much more we will be rescued from sin’s dominion! 11 And even more than that, we overflow with triumphant joy in our new relationship of living in harmony with God—all because of Jesus Christ! Romans 5:9-11 (TPT)


LYRICS:
It's so unusual it's frightening
You see right through the mess inside me
And you call me out to pull me in
You tell me I can start again
And I don't need to keep on hiding

I'm fully known and loved by You
You won't let go no matter what I do
And it's not one or the other
It's hard truth and ridiculous grace
To be known fully known and loved by You
I'm fully known and loved by You

It's so like You to keep pursuing
It's so like me to go astray, ooh
But You guard my heart with Your truth
The kind of love that's bullet proof
And I surrender to Your kindness, oh

I'm fully known and loved by You
You won't let go no matter what I do
And it's not one or the other
It's hard truth and ridiculous grace
To be known fully known and loved by You
I'm fully known and loved by