'Wonderful God' by Hillsong

'Wonderful God' is a great song by Hillsong that focuses a few of the many attributes of our God. It proclaims Him as Creator, Omnipresent, Faithful, Trustworthy, Honorable, Praiseworthy, Eternal, Worthy, Glorious, Loving, Life Giver and ...Wonderful. The best part, IMO(in my opinion), of the song is this anthemic recognition of these attributes. I know that this writer writes out of personal experience and conviction and with the understanding that we have little to no actual understanding of God except what He has revealed to us by His word. So, with that, these words that we sing, although simple to utter, are far more difficult to come to grips with. Sometimes I think that our participation in worship comes close to hypocrisy if not hits it dead on. Often times I'm left speechless when I hear songs like this that speak of the true beauty and incredible wonder of our God. Then, when I can get the fortitude to sing, I sing it loud from a humbled and awestruck mind.

Wonderful God

Beautiful is Your creation

You're glorious in every way

You surround us with

Your faithful love

And we can trust in all You say

Wonderful God

Wonderful O God

You are worthy of all glory

All honour and praise

All to You our God

Forever and always

You are worthy of our worship

And worthy of our love

We stand in awe of

All You are

You are love

You are life

You are all glorious

My one regret about this song is that it doesn't clearly define who it is directed toward. Without to much background to my statement, I'll just say this; if you want to get challenged about using basic doctrinal truths in songwriting (like the Trinity), read "Worshipping Trinity" - by Robin Perry. It looks at songs and set of songs through the doctrine of the trinity and classifies songs through that. This song, Wonderful God, would be labeled as an ambiguous 'You Lord' song rather than pointing to the person of the trinity F / S / HS who is being glorified through the specific lyric and wording of the song. (Without slipping into modalism). Wow. It is a tough calling and responsibility we have as worship leaders to understand what we are singing and how that shapes the theology of our congregation and society.