Chris Tomlin - Amazing Love How Can It be Lyrics
Lyrics
I'm forgiven because you were forsaken and I'm accepted you were condemned I'm alive and well your spirit is within me because you died and rose again
Amazing love how can can it be that you my king would die for me amazing love I know its true that it's my joy to honor you
in all I do I honor you I'm forgiven because you were forsaken and I'm accepted you were condemned I'm alive and well your spirit is within me because you died and rose again
Amazing love how can can it be that you my king would die for me amazing love I know its true that it's my joy to honor you
Amazing love how can can it be that you my king would die for me amazing love i know its true that it's my joy to honor you
in all I do i honor you you are my king you are my king Amazing love how can can it be that you my king would die for me amazing love I know it's true that its my joy to honor you in all I do
I honor you you are my king you are my king Jesus, you are my king Jesus, you are my king you are my king Jesus, you are my king
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Meaning & Inspiration
Chris Tomlin’s take on this classic theme, which found a massive new audience on his 2008 album Hello Love, strips away the complexity of modern worship to focus on the raw mechanics of the gospel. When he sings that he is forgiven because Christ was forsaken, he is essentially preaching the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. It hits the central nerve of the New Testament, specifically echoing the weight of Galatians 3:13, where the apostle Paul writes that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. We often sanitize the cross, turning it into a piece of jewelry, but these lyrics drag us back to the stark reality that our acceptance before a holy God cost the life of the only sinless man who ever lived.
The hook, which asks how a King could possibly die for his subjects, moves beyond a simple question and becomes an act of worship. It demands that we grapple with the sheer scandal of grace. If you look at Romans 5:8, it says that God demonstrated His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Tomlin isn't just singing a catchy melody; he is articulating a theological surrender. When the lyrics shift to the response that it is our joy to honor Him in all we do, he is describing what the Bible calls sanctification. We don’t honor Him to earn the forgiveness mentioned in the first verse; we honor Him because that forgiveness has fundamentally rearranged our priorities.
There is a gritty honesty in the transition from the vertical focus of the cross to the horizontal reality of our daily lives. By declaring that his spirit is within us because Christ died and rose again, Tomlin touches on the promise of the indwelling Holy Spirit found in Romans 8:11. This isn't just about escaping hell; it is about the power of the resurrected life invading our ordinary existence. Every time we claim that Jesus is our King, we are making a radical counter-cultural statement that our allegiance is not to our own comfort, but to the One who took our place in the grave. Grace is not just a free gift; it is an invitation to lose your life to find it, proving that the only logical response to a love that survives death is a life that is completely given away.