The first worship song I've written and fully recorded. In 2013, I'd had a dream for years that I wanted to write a worship song to God that was truly from my heart. I originally wanted to write a song full of deep theological concepts. I was about a verse in when I realized that I was writing a song not to glorify God, but to impress Him (and other people) with how many big fancy theological words I knew and how I could make them rhyme. So I started over. 

So one morning, I took communion and examined myself, asking myself what it really was that I truly wanted to say to God. All I could come up with was "Thank You." When considering the full weight of His grace in my life...undeserved, unmerited, and completely outside of the grasp of my ability, I had a moment of humble clarity where I realized the only appropriate response was deep gratitude. He did all the work in my salvation, fully and completely independent of anything I could have done, and He deserves all the glory. So I began writing. The song was complete by the end of 2013. It would be just over a year before I would record it in February of 2015. And now I'm sharing it with the world. 

"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God." - Romans 5:1-2 (ESV)

E.J. Cartagena

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