All Things

We spent a lot of time reflecting on our personal worship stories in this course. Three out of four weeks, the verse "we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose" (Rom. 8:28) came up.

Last week, the pastor of the discipleship group I've been a part of since last fall assigned us to read that portion of Romans (8:28-39) as if Jesus were reading it to us. Consistently, the words "called" and "chosen" caught my attention out of that passage.

This same pastor spoke on Sunday night about paying attention to when God seems to be "pressing the gas pedal" on something (something comes to your attention from several different directions). Since the verse continually came up throughout this course, I read it as an assignment, and a handful of words continuously stuck out to me, I thought it might be God's way of drawing my attention to something.

This song is really Romans 8:28-39 written as a song. I chose to do it in first person (like the above-mentioned assignment) because I felt it carried more meaning as God expressing to us instead of us declaring back to God–as more of a reflective, grounding type of song.