Tuesday, August 14, 2012

My Heart Delights, version 3 billion.

Last chance for comments, guys. It gets recorded soon - probably this week. 

 My heart delights

 My heart delights
that Christ would leave his throne,
and come to earth
to claim us as his own.
God from eternity
shared our humanity!
Our God in flesh adorned
A child was born!
Jesus, Lord through all the ages
God from God and light from light
Came from heaven, brought salvation
Be alone my heart’s delight

My heart delights
that God would give himself
He sought no power, 
no honor and no wealth.
What love is this? What grace!
He suffered in my place!
He walked the road for me
To Calvary.

My heart delights
That I can live for him
And serve the one
Who freed me from my sin
Oh Spirit, light your fire!
Make him my one desire!
Burn through the coldest night
My heart’s delight.

sar 2012
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7 comments:

  1. Anthony DouglasAugust 14, 2012 at 9:38 AM

    I'm puzzled with the chorus - is it addressing Jesus (a change from the verses, which would work well), or not? The last line leaves me uncertain...can't tell if that 'Be' is vocative or optative!

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  2. simone rAugust 14, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    Yes. It's addressing Jesus.

    For the last line I mean 'Jesus, be my heart's delight'

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  3. Anthony DouglasAugust 14, 2012 at 10:50 PM

    In that case, it's the third line that's throwing me off that sense. I don't know that you cannot omit 'you' from the start of the line and have it parsed that way still...

    I'm not having much luck with suggestions - the best I can get is 'you left heaven, brought salvation'.

    It may be just me, of course.

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  4. simone rAugust 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM

    We changed that last line to 'Jesus be my heart's delight'

    Does that help?

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  5. Anthony DouglasAugust 15, 2012 at 9:34 AM

    Sure. It means that the last line becomes a response to the first three - they're the indicative, and it's the optative. Works for me.

    Shame that it means lines 1 and 4 start the same, but you can't have everything!

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  6. Tom BarrettAugust 15, 2012 at 1:29 PM

    I really love the tension between the affirmation "My heart delights" in the verses and the wish "Be my heart's delight" at the end of the chorus. That is totally what the Christian life is like!

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  7. Tom BarrettAugust 15, 2012 at 1:34 PM

    To make the whole chorus "optative" (learned a new word right there) how about changing line 3 something like this:
    "Sent from heaven, my salvation:
    Be alone my heart's delight"
    ?

    (I always like a bit of punctuation to help articulate lyrics. Pity CCLI disagrees (that's another story))

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