Rush of Fools

I’ve been listening to the new Rush of Fools album for the last couple of weeks, and I’ve really gotten into it.  In particular, I’ve been listening to The Only Thing That’s Beautiful in Me.  Look at these lyrics.

Just like the ocean waves

You crash on me

Just like a tidal wave

You ruin me

Just like a hurricane

You devastate ev’rything

that needs to change





(And) You are the only thing that’s beautiful in me

That’s beautiful in me

And You are the only thing that’s beautiful in me

That’s beautiful in me





Just like a mountain peak

You lift me up

Just like a desert stream

You fill my cup

And like a heart that beats

You are the blood that covers me

You cover me





(And) You are the only thing that’s beautiful in me

That’s beautiful in me

And You are the only thing that’s beautiful in me

That’s beautiful in me





And all I can say is thank You

Thank You

And all I can say is thank You

Lord thank You

And all I can say is thank You

Thank You

This makes me think of Romans 8 where it says, However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit , if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you… If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.  But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Then follows the scripture I cling to, Who will separate us from the love of Christ?  Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword…But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer though Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor delpth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Originally posted October 3, 2008)