Started with a riff and a chorus and then built around that. This dates back to my time at Worship Academy with Chris Bowater. A nice upbeat worship song.
We are rightly taught that it is only by grace that we are saved. But it can be easy to get into wrong thinking about what we can do, and feel inadequate because of what we don’t do, or don’t have the ability to so.
This is a song to sing together as a congregation or in personal worship, to remind ourselves that whatever our abilities or frailties are, we can come accepted and worship Him, knowing that his grace will supply what we need as part of the body of Christ. We are all “fearfully and wonderfully made”, often with “weirdly hewn” characteristics that God designed for His glory!
The Olympic motto is "Citius, altius, fortius, communiter" which translated into English is "Faster, higher stronger, together". We come together at the Olympics to celebrate individual achievement, but in community. Those achievements mean nothing without community and the individual needs the help of community to achieve their potential. This is very much the same model of the church which should be a loving community that enables each individual to achieve their full potential. So an Olympic song about achieving together. After all the Trinity is the ultimate community.
It's all to easy to despair if we star too long at the world's problems. This song is a prayer to ask God to renew his great deeds in our day - to remember mercy and bring revival.
A sporting analogy song which echoes the words of 1 Tim 4:8, what training for Godliness is of more value that physical training, even though the latter has some value. Like the apostle Paul, we seek to run the race before us with endurance.
Written as part of the 2024 Resound Worship 12 Song Challenge under the theme “Olympic songs”