Humbled By Your Grace

From Pride to Praise - that is the name of the whole album, and the praise end of it begins here, on the knees. You cannot make that walk standing up. You make it bowed. This is the bow: all I am, and all I have, is Yours and Yours alone.

I wrote the first verse as a confession of how it actually happened - I was blind, and then He revealed Himself to me. Not I found Him. He revealed Himself. That order matters to me more than almost anything. But the verse I most needed to write is the third one. It would have been easy to write a whole song about how grace humbles the proud, point it at everyone else, and feel good about it. Instead the song turns the mirror around: But I too struggle with pride, oh Lord - even pride in Your grace. That is the subtlest pride there is. Pride in being right about grace. Pride in having the doctrine straight. It is the pride that wears the costume of humility, and it is the one I have to watch hardest in myself.

So this is not a song about other people's pride. It is the prayer I need prayed over me - purge my heart of all self-righteousness - and it is the hinge the whole album turns on, the moment the pride finally goes down so the praise can start.