I'm sitting here in the Sandpiper, the restaurant at the Mark IV Inn, across the street from Rosauers grocery store in Moscow, as I often do on Thursday mornings as I wait for my daughter's music class to end. (She's there with grandma.) There's wireless here, so I put on my headphones and blog and surf.
I just finished listening to one of my favorite songs, "Only Jesus/Calvary's Love," by Steve Green, a Christian guy I used to listen to back in the 80s, as a young Christian. I was still Protestant in those days, but one of my surprises when I came back to the Catholic Church almost three years ago was that I could still listen to the Christian music that influenced my early adulthood. This not only includes Steve Green, but Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith and Keith Green and 2nd Chapter of Acts. I still listen to those guys.
Anyway, the song mentioned above had a profound influence on my life. It's the kind of song you want played at your funeral. Green's baritone voice is beautiful, and he sings it perfectly. It also is one of those songs that describe how I feel about God's love and grace. Returning to Catholicism has changed little of that.
So here are the lyrics. It's unfortunate that there's no way to embed MP3s on webpages (at least that I know of). It's on Green's "People Need the Lord" album.
Only Jesus, only Him
Brings redemption full and free.
There’s a yearning in all our lives
That only Jesus satisfies.
Calvary’s love will sail forever
Bright and shiny, strong and free.
Like an ark of peace and safety
On the sea of human need.
Through the hours of all the ages,
Those tired of sailing on their own
Find their rest inside the shadow
Cast by Calvary’s love across their souls.
Chorus:
Calvary’s love, Calvary’s love
Priceless gift Christ makes us worthy of
The deepest sin can’t rise above Calvary’s love.
Calvary’s love can heal the spirit
Life has crushed and cast aside
And redeem ‘til heaven’s promise
Fills with joy once empty eyes.
So desired to tell the story
Of a love that loves enough to die.
Burns away all other passions
And fed by Calvary’s love becomes a fire.
Chorus
Calvary’s love has never faltered
All that wanders still remain.
Souls still take eternal passage
Sins atoned and heaven gained,
Sins atoned and heaven gained.
Hmm….
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It's a shame that you love a song with lyrics of Only Jesus but have gone to a religion that adds Mary, the priest, the pope, pentence and who knows what else to what Jesus did. You should read the lyrics and your Bible again for yourself and and hopefully realize that you won't find Only Jesus in the Catholic church. Perhaps its the personal relationship with Jesus that you need in order to truly believe the words you claim to enjoy.
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