Yesterday, I was at my amazing boyfriend’s church. It was a beautiful sermon and the songs were really amazing. But one of the things that struck me most that service was a song that was played during the Lord’s Supper. The song is called Broken and Beautiful, written by Brian Doerksen. You can listen to it here. (music fans: official chords here!) I love this song because it really gave me a different and fresh view on the Lord’s Supper. It’s different, but yet exactly what I feel.

As we break this bread, as we drink this cup – Lord we remember
how you gave your life, on a brutal cross – Lord we remember.
This is the way you’ve chosen to save, this is the way you make all things new.

Broken and beautiful – extravagant love, prodigal grace.
Broken and beautiful – God’s perfect justice, mercy’s embrace.

Next to it’s poetic beauty this is also a song that makes you look at God’s grace in a different way. At least, that’s what it did to me. The one thing that just jumped out was the part where he sings ‘This is the way, You’ve chosen to save. This is the way, You make all things new.’ Did you ever think about the way that God chose to save our lives? I mean, He could have easily started a war against the devil and He would have won. He could have easily let us take the blame ourselves. God could have done so many things, but he chose this way.

He chose the way where somebody else took the blame for us. But who would, willingly, take that blame? Who would give up his life for the lives of other people? People that keep on making the same mistakes over and over again? Exactly. No-one would. The only one that would willingly choose that way was God Himself – Jesus.

And yet Jesus didn’t choose a way of war, or fear. Jesus didn’t choose a way of laws or commandments, no, Jesus chose the way of love. The way to make everything new was through His never failing, unconditional and divine love. He chose a way of love, a beautiful love. Yet this love had to be broken to be beautiful. Jesus broke on a cross one day, so that you would never have to break. Undescribable extravagant love – that’s the way He chose.

This song changed my way of thinking – I know now what to remember. I will remember the way that God chose to save, the way He chose to make me new. God’s perfect justice, mercy’s embrace – broken and beautiful.