Chris Tomlin - I Stand Amazed - How Marvelous, How Wonderful Lyrics
Lyrics
I stand amazed in the presence
Of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me,
A sinner condemned, unclean.
How marvelous! How wonderful!
And my song shall ever be:
How marvelous! How wonderful!
Is my Savior’s love for me!
For me it was in the garden,
He prayed: “Not my will, but Thine.”
He had no tears for His own griefs,
But sweat-drops of blood for mine.
In pity angels beheld Him,
And came from the world of light
To strengthen Him in the sorrows
He bore for my soul that night.
He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calv’ry,
And suffered, and died alone.
When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see,
’Twill be my joy through the ages
To sing of His love for me.
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I Stand Amazed - Chris Tomlin [with lyrics]
Meaning & Inspiration
Sweat-drops of blood. That imagery just sits there in my gut like an unswallowed pill because the gospel says the cup didn't pass, yet I keep wondering if the weight he carried really accounts for the mess I make on a Tuesday morning. It feels too heavy to be a song, like how can someone hold the crushing silence of the Father turning away while the sky went black, and then just turn it into a melody with a steady beat? Actually, wait, maybe the dissonance is the point, or maybe I’m just projecting my own inability to process the way the temple curtain tore open when everything else was supposed to be hidden. He bore the burden, but did he really take the sharp edges of my specific bitterness, or is that just poetic license to make the melody land softer? I don't know, it’s like trying to hold water in cupped hands, watching the truth slip through while I’m distracted by the chord progression. Peter on the water had his eyes on the waves and started sinking, and I think I’m doing the same thing here, looking at the lyrics instead of the weight of what happened under the trees. How marvelous, how wonderful, those words feel almost too clean for a night where friends were sleeping while he was breaking apart.
Is it enough?