Chord progressions evoke emotions and even suggest
lyrics! Play this chord progression slowly on your guitar, keyboard, or music
app:
What do you feel? What ideas go through your mind?
As I was playing this progression, I felt a yearning to be loved perfectly. This
reminded me that Jesus loves me. Perfectly, completely! So I wrote song lyrics describing
his love for me and set them to a simple melody accompanied by the chords. However,
the song was incomplete. I left out why I hunger for perfect love.
A month later
a friend invited me to hear a Christian leader speak at
the Union League Club downtown Chicago. Every
other month Moody Business Network hosts a
luncheon for the business community. According to their website, “Each MBN event features a guest speaker from the top ranks of
business, athletics or academia who shares their life story.”
As Greg Koukl,
Founder and President of Stand to Reason, shared his story, he explained my longing
for perfect love. God judges my behavior and attitudes perfectly for he knows
my motives and intentions and the depth of harm I have caused others. God
cannot overlook that harm. His justice is perfect, crushing, condemning. Jesus
loves me, a condemned person! He loves me so much that he bore the weight of
God’s perfect justice so I don’t have to. He loves me completely, perfectly! His
love for me makes it possible for God to offer me perfect mercy.
I incorporated
those thoughts into the song. It was almost complete. After weaving a few notes
from the children’s hymn, “Jesus Loves Me,” in the music, the song was finished.
From the album
“This & That – A Little Bit of Everything” this video is music overlaid on
slides.
Kathy
Print (PDF) and
digital (MusicXML™) sheet music for Jesus
Loves Me are available at the MusicStories shop on Etsy.com.
