The next installment in my series of articles on Michael Card's new record, To the Kindness of God. Previous articles posted below.
- Intro: https://steemit.com/music/@thejebi/to-the-kindness-of-god-an-album-review-introduction
- Track 1: https://steemit.com/music/@thejebi/to-the-kindness-of-god-an-album-review-track-1
- Come as You Are
- Hymn to the Kindness of God
- The Shelter of the Shadow
- That Kind of Love
- When Dinah Held My Hand / Jesus Is on the Mainline
- Gomer’s Song
- This Is My Father’s World
- I Will Be Kind
- Why Not Change the World
“Come as You Are” is followed by “Hymn to the Kindness of God.” In this delicate piece, Michael seeks to express the inexpressible. Attribute after luminous attribute is named, filling out the nature of hesed. The nature of God. “Relentless tenderness, Hope of humankind.”
There’s a graceful wind and string arrangement (real instruments!) blending with voice and piano. It hearkens back to orchestration on early work such as The Final Word and The Beginning. Beautiful and, for me, nostalgic.
“Who you truly are, we hardly can believe; You know what we are, yet you refuse to leave.” Read the Scriptures and you will be confronted by a God whose goodness and love are so much purer than ours that he may seem, at times, too good to be true. Or maybe as Andrew Peterson says, “too good not to be true.”
(To be continued...)