If I Stand

I heard a song one time, and that was all it took for me to fall in love with it. The song is called If I Stand. It is sung by Rich Mullins, and I believe he also wrote it.

The melody is beautiful, and I love the bass that runs through it. I could sing it forever. Besides that, it sounds Irish, and I love Irish music.

But, perhaps more beautiful than anything else is the words.

It says if I stand, let me stand on His promises. But, if I can’t, let me fall on His grace. If I sing, let it be for His joy. If I weep, let it be as a man longing for his home. This song always brings tears to my eyes.

Those words are kind of me in a nutshell. When I sing it I say “When I stand”, “When I can’t”, “When I sing”, and “When I weep”, because I do all of that, and I do it often. When we can’t stand, falling on His grace is the softest landing we can have. That is what it is for.

I wish I could say I always stand without faltering, but like all of us, that will not happen until I am in heaven. Then God will never let me fall again, and I will no longer weep for my home. I will be there.

I was listening to this song on the way home from church today and I knew I had to share it with all of you. If you love it like I do, please pass it on to others.

Here is the link for you to listen to it. You will have to copy and paste it. I am also including the lyrics.

Think about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jj0ZTzgmGM

If I Stand

There's more that rises in the morning
Than the sun
And more that shines in the night
Than just the moon
It's more than just this fire here
That keeps me warm
In a shelter that is larger
Than this room

And there's a loyalty that's deeper
Than mere sentiments
And a music higher than the songs
That I can sing
The stuff of Earth competes
For the allegiance
I owe only to the Giver
Of all good things

So if I stand let me stand on the promise
That you will pull me through
And if I can't, let me fall on the grace
That first brought me to You
And if I sing let me sing for the joy
That has born in me these songs
And if I weep let it be as a man
Who is longing for his home

There's more that dances on the prairies
Than the wind
More that pulses in the ocean
Than the tide
There's a love that is fiercer
Than the love between friends
More gentle than a mother's
When her baby's at her side

And there's a loyalty that's deeper
Than mere sentiments
And a music higher than the songs
That I can sing
The stuff of Earth competes
For the allegiance
I owe only to the Giver
Of all good things

So if I stand let me stand on the promise
That you will pull me through
And if I can't let me fall on the grace
That first brought me to You
And if I sing let me sing for the joy
That has born in me these songs
And if I weep let it be as a man
Who is longing for his home

And if I stand let me stand on the promise
That you will pull me through
And if I can't let me fall on the grace
That first brought me to You
And if I sing let me sing for the joy
That has born in me these songs
And if I weep let it be as a man
Who is longing for his home

And if I weep let it be as a man
Who is longing for his home