The Measure of the Fullness

Songwriters often carry the seeds of songs for years before they germinate and begin to blossom into song. For years, I was struck by the metaphor embedded in creation of the crimson morning sky that reminds us daily of the mercies that are new for us through the cross. The sky with the vastness of its dimension seems the perfect canvas to display the expansiveness of God’s love. Paul writes of this in the third chapter of Ephesians. “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

Worship songwriters are often intentional as to whether a song is sung from a first-person singular or plural vantage point. This song needed to be a “we” song. The culmination of the communal voice of the song is found in the final chorus where we hear a vocal ensemble made up of dear friends from the Christian community in our hometown of twenty-some years.