Heaven's Eyes [Story Board]

On Father’s Day 2019, the pastor closed his sermon with this: “God wants you to stand under the waterfall of his approval.”  The second I heard it I couldn’t get it out of my head or my heart. The sermon had been about how we crave approval (specifically from our fathers) and how God answers that intense need with his own love for us. From the psalms the pastor talked about how God does not delight in the strength or the impressiveness of a person, but his delight is in the one who places their hope in his love. I’m not sure if it was that day or a few days later but that “waterfall of approval” eventually brought me to my guitar. I knew that waterfall well! Some of the sweetest moments of my life are the silent ones, when my spirit is hanging on every word of God, believing him fully.

As someone who knows a lot about seeking approval and craving affirmation in all the wrong places, there is nothing better than remembering (for the millionth time) that I already have all the approval and affirmation I’m looking for in the love of God for me, and experiencing it. He designed me with this hunger for love because he desires to satisfy that hunger with himself. I hope that when you hear Heaven’s Eyes, you don’t just hear words, but you experience the truth of them for yourself. I pray that you rest your head on this truth. I’m so grateful to have written this song with Jonathan Smith, who is kind, gracious, and exactly what was needed! 

Psalm 147: 10-11
His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,
nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; 
the Lord delights in those who fear him,
who put their hope in his unfailing love.

Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.