Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Background music is "The Blessing" (Cinematic Version)
Written by Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe, and Steven Furtick
©2020 Music by Elevation Worship Publishing (Admin. by Essential Music Publishing LLC) and Remaining portion is unaffiliated

Spoken Word Lyrics:

Twenty twenty
The year of the letdown
The lockdown
The anxious restless stressed out meltdown

A global discordant cacophony
A sadistic symphony
A poisonous polygamy
of plague, prejudice, and polity

The perfect storm to dislodge our decency
To stoke our differences from sea to shinning sea
A viral medley so mysteriously infectious
It’s both thieved us of life
And inflamed all our factions

Red or Blue, left or right
Pick your poison and plant your position
Not in my life have I seen such conviction
Over policy and public decrees
Opinions aplenty, the truth so diseased

And to top it off, adding insult to discord, the rise of racial unraveling
The renewed reality that skin-hate’s still breathing
The reeking reminder that racism runs rampant
The God image in all still classified and dismantled

What’s more, our isolation’s led to toxic meditations
Our minds left to fester on social vacation
Apart and alone we’re hungry for hope
And in deep need of peace this season is no joke

So where does this leave us? On this starry night
Near the end of this chapter but the end far from sight
See I fear there’s a permanent impression
this soul-deep recession will leave on our minds
And I see seeds of doubt budding and running wild like fire

I echo the psalmist, King David who wrote:
How long Lord? Will You forget me forever?
Your face seems pretty well hidden
and my religion doesn’t seem to make this any better

I’m tryin Lord, I’m tryin’

So help me!

Help me consider that Your ways aren’t my ways
Good days and bad days are filled with You always

I know that I know that I know that

To this I will appeal
For there’s a separation in what I know and what I feel
So let’s rehearse the truths we know to be real:

The God of the sun is also the God of the rain
The God of the winter is also the God of the spring
The God of the healing is still God in my pain
And the God of the past is still the God of today

Listen, this struggle isn’t new, in fact it’s why He came
Not to erase all pain (that’s the end of the game)
but to enter our mess
Not to dry all our tears but to cry with us

That’s the Christmas story
Not of a God so high and mighty
So removed that He rules so blindly
He’s not a King who commands out of selfish ambition
Not of greed for some riches or rank or position

Don’t be mistaken, He’s a God MOST worthy
But didn’t Lord it or leverage His authority

Instead He set aside all that glory and came undercover
Born disguised as a slave to serve like a brother
To feel the world and see the night turn to day
To feed the poor and heal the souls He had made

So to all those who wonder where God’s been at
I’m confident you’ll see in the near days you’ll look back
That He’s been smack dab right there in the middle of your tracks
He’s with you, I’m tellin’ ya If you’re gonna believe one thing, believe that

What the psalmist forgets (or had yet to experience)
Was Emmanuel’s grand plan to love man so furious
See He stepped off that throne and into the mud
What kind of God does that? What King ever would?
But He did and He still does and He’s right here among us
Especially right now on the eve of this Christmas

So fling wide your hope and let His presence sink deep
And restore your belief that His promise never sleeps
God is not dead nor does He flee
When the hellish tide rises it will be met with defeat

I’m gonna say it now and you’re gonna sing it soon
And when you do I pray your peace is fully renewed

May His favor be upon you
for a thousand generations
And your family and your children
And their children and their children

May His presence go before you
and behind you and beside you
All around you and within you
He is with you He is with you