I've said before now that there are certain songs which I would like sung at my funeral as they are "testimony songs". By this I mean they are songs sung during significant times in my life, and they speak to me of what was happening at that time. I think it would save a lot of time if people sang the songs and didn't bother talking about me.... but then again there are rather a lot of songs so maybe they will have to publish a song book instead :-)
These are the first two songs:
Father God I wonder
This song I caught myself singing in a biology class before I became a Christian. I had been going along to Christian Union meetings with some friends but this was the first "sign" that God was beginning to get through to me.
It was significant that I was singing about God as "Father" because my opinion of God at that time was an aloof irrelevant being. "Father" is a close and trusting relationship, something very different indeed to how I saw God up until that time.
Servant King
This is another song which represented a complete change of mindset (or faithset). It talks of the suffering of Jesus and His love for us. It also talks about "the hands that flung stars into space, to cruel nails surrendered". I never realised before that Jesus was present at creation, that as part of the Trinity He was present throughout all eternity. My sister got cross with me for singing a "Trinitarian song" because the Christadelphians don't believe in the Trinity. For me it was a revelation, everything made sense, so much that I had not been able to understand began to fall into place as I realised how much and how deeply Jesus loved us, and how God had everything planned from the start of time.
So, these two songs are my "coming to faith songs".
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