Would You Restore
"The New Testament…regularly insists that the major, central, framing question is that of God's purpose of rescue and re-creation for the whole world, the entire cosmos." (1) God's desire is to restore creation to rights—the echo of justice described at the beginning of this course (2). My inspiration for this song was based on the question, what does it look like for us to be restored to rights?
To answer this question, I looked at the four ideas of what it means to be a human being explored in the third week of the course—what were we created for? This song relies heavily on the idea that we were created for relationship (specifically, in this case, with God) and as image-bearers.
Primarily, this song is a cry for restored intimacy with God, as made available to us through Jesus' death and resurrection and His presence in the Holy Spirit. Within the tension of the truth of His omnipresence and heaven and earth overlapping and interlocking (3) versus the reality that we cannot know Him fully in the present, this voices an earnest cry for restored relationship—to know and by known by this "Creator King, [the] Relational Savior." (4)
1. N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope, (HarperOne: 2008), 184.
2. See N.T. Wright, Simply Christian, (Harper-Collins: 2006).
3. Ibid., 65.
4. Dan Wilt, Essentials in Worship Theology, 52.