"There Was Jesus"

Music speaks to me. I love to listen to contemporary Christian music on the radio. I have the station set in my car so it is always on. The music and scriptures lift my spirits and help me worship God. It is a reminder of God's presence around me and that I need to show God to others by my acts of kindness. 

Recently there has been one song that I love to hear. It speaks of Jesus' presence all around us, all the time. There Was Jesus by Dolly Parton and Zach Williams is one of those songs that keeps running through my mind.

There Was Jesus

Song by Dolly Parton and Zach Williams

"Every time I tried to make it on my own
Every time I tried to stand and start to fall
And all those lonely roads that I have travelled on
There was Jesus

When the life I built came crashing to the ground
When the friends I had were nowhere to be found
I couldn't see it then but I can see it now
There was Jesus

In the waiting, in the searching
In the healing and the hurting
Like a blessing buried in the broken pieces
(Refrain: Every minute, every moment
Where I've been and where I'm going
Even when I didn't know it or couldn't see it
There was Jesus)

For this man who needs amazing kind of grace (Mmm)
For forgiveness at a price I couldn't pay (Mmm)
I'm not perfect so I thank God every day
There was Jesus (There was Jesus)

(Refrain)

On the mountain, in the valleys (There was Jesus)
In the shadows of the alleys (There was Jesus)
In the fire, in the flood (There was Jesus)
Always is and always was
No I never walk alone (Never walk alone)
You are always there

In the waiting, in the searching
In the healing and the hurting
Like a blessing buried in the broken pieces
Every minute (Every minute), every moment (Every moment)
Where I've been and where I'm going
Even when I didn't know it or couldn't see it
There was Jesus

There was Jesus
There was Jesus
There was Jesus."

I hope you can listen to the song sometime and enjoy the words to music. I hope the words speak to you as they did to me.

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, 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," (Ephesians 3:16-19 NIV).