He has since launched another album, Beautiful News, and continues to write many more popular songs such as You Never Let Go and Shine.
Songfacts states that Redman's eighth album 10,000 Reasons, was co-written with several of his friends. He then recorded the songs live in Atlanta, leading worship for over 1,000 worship leaders during LIFT: A Worship Leader Collective, put on by Passion City Church and sixstepsrecords on February 18 and 19, 2011. It sold nearly 7,000 units its first week in the US, almost doubling Redman's previous album release We Shall Not Be Shaken. The LP entered the Billboard 200 at #66, his biggest debut to date.
Here Is Love
Matt Redman Lyrics
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Loving kindness as the flood
When the Prince of Life, our Ransom
Shed for us His precious blood
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten
Throughout Heaven's eternal days
On the mount of crucifixion
Fountains opened deep and wide
Through the floodgates of God's mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide
Grace and love, like mighty rivers
Poured incessant from above
And Heaven's peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love
No love is higher, no love is wider
No love is deeper, no love is truer
No lover is higher, no lover is wider
No love is like Your love, o Lord
The song "Here Is Love" by Matt Redman is a beautiful hymn that speaks of God's boundless and overwhelming love and kindness towards humanity. The lyrics paint a picture of this love as vast as the ocean and as flooding as the kindness shown to us in the shedding of Jesus' precious blood. The song draws on imagery from the cross, describing how at the mount of crucifixion fountains of mercy were opened wide, and grace and love poured down from above like mighty rivers. The song celebrates how heaven's peace and perfect justice met a guilty world in love, and how this love is unspeakably high, wide, deep, and true, surpassing all other loves.
In the first verse of the song, the lyrics present the concept of God's love through a powerful metaphor of sweeping waters. God's love is compared to a vast ocean and a flooding river, evoking the feeling that it is all-encompassing and all-consuming. The second verse shifts to the image of the cross and the pouring of mercy, grace, love, peace, and justice onto humanity. The song acknowledges the vastness and overwhelming nature of God's love and invites us to consider how unfailing, unforgettable, and eternal it is. The final verse is a declaration of God's love, stating that it is higher, wider, deeper, and truer than any other love in this world.
Line by Line Meaning
Here is love, vast as the ocean
The love being talked about is as immense and wide as the ocean.
Loving kindness as the flood
The love being talked about is likened to a flood of kindness.
When the Prince of Life, our Ransom
Referring to Jesus, who is the Ransom for our sins.
Shed for us His precious blood
Jesus shed his blood to save us from our sins.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can forget the overwhelming love that Jesus has shown?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
Those who experience his love will never stop singing praise to him.
He can never be forgotten
Jesus will always be remembered for the love he has shown.
Throughout Heaven's eternal days
Forever and ever.
On the mount of crucifixion
Refers to the hill where Jesus was crucified.
Fountains opened deep and wide
Metaphorical language that speaks to the idea that through Jesus' death, the possibility of forgiveness and salvation was open to anyone who believes.
Through the floodgates of God's mercy
Metaphorical language that speaks to the idea that forgiveness and salvation are made possible by the love and mercy of God.
Flowed a vast and gracious tide
The overwhelming and gracious love of God poured forth.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers
The unstoppable power and depth of God's grace and love, compared to the mightiness of rivers.
Poured incessant from above
God's grace and love continue to pour down upon us without end.
And Heaven's peace and perfect justice
The love and grace of God bring about peace and justice that can only come from heaven.
Kissed a guilty world in love
God's love and grace reached out to us, even though we are imperfect and undeserving.
No love is higher, no love is wider
There is no greater love than God's love.
No love is deeper, no love is truer
God's love is the deepest and truest form of love there is.
No lover is higher, no lover is wider
No one else can ever love us as deeply and widely as God loves us.
No love is like Your love, o Lord
God's love is unique and incomparable to any other form of love.
Lyrics © CAPITOL CHRISTIAN MUSIC GROUP, DistroKid, Universal Music Publishing Group, Capitol CMG Publishing, Integrity Music
Written by: JOHN ANDREW SCHREINER, ROBERT LOWRY, WILLIAM REES
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Achi Imchen
Thank you for loving me this much Jesus.
William Howard
I wish to thank you for sharing this awesome Christian music video with me .
John J. Flanagan - Songs of Faith
Uplifting, beautiful hymn and lyrics. Thank you for sharing.
Z Viskovic
Romans 5:8 - But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:10 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
The Introvert Gospel Music
I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me. - C.H Spurgeon
Mike Lindell
Random musical thought - the lyrics of the old hymn Come Thou Fount fit perfectly with this melody.
chris Jacquier
I just listened to Redman's interpretation here. William Rees' hymn, "Here is Love," is beautiful. The usual accompaniment to this hymn is musical and singable, alone or in a congregation.
Sadly, like many modern interpretations of older and better hymns, this one becomes un-singable as a means of worship.
It's more about a performer than God. So many are ruined, even by English soloists, performers who drag out American vowels and add syllables where there should be one. He-elp me ga-ad.
I really like singing the Getty's "By faith we see the hand of God." But why does an English church's so-called "worship group" end the verse with, " and naad by saaide?"
Trying to emulate the Gettys' own accents is utterly ridiculous. We know that our trans-Atlantic cousins find pronouncing "t" something to be eschewed at the end of words because to do so is tantamount to Treason, perfidy, infidelity to US of A. That is why many English actors are cast as the evil, wicked, cruel or merely horrid in American films.
Americans are so embarrassed to speak as we speak. For an Englishman or woman to emulate an American accent is quite ridiculous because it sounds unnatural, ridiculous and in singing the occasionally worthy, modern hymn (or song) it completely detracts from worship. So stop it.
Carolyn Goerig
Interesting take. Thank you.