Zach Williams - Rescue Story Lyrics

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Zach Williams - "Rescue Story" (Official Lyric Video)

Meaning & Inspiration

Released: 04 Oct 2019 Album name: Rescue Story

I’ve been sitting here thinking about that line where he says God was writing the pages before he even had a name. It hit me that this is really just another way of saying what the psalmist wrote about being knit together in the womb while every day of our lives was already written down. It’s comforting, but it also makes me wonder about how we handle our own choices. If God is writing the story like that, where does the running away come in? He sings about the Lord being louder than his shame, and that part feels so true to the gospel, like how nothing can separate us from the love of God. I think about the guy in the gospels who was naked and living among the tombs, and how Jesus just showed up and changed everything. That’s what this feels like—being dragged from the ashes and death to life.

But then I stop and look at the "glory to glory" part. Paul wrote about that in his letter to the Corinthians, but he was talking about how we see the Lord’s face with unveiled eyes. Sometimes I worry we turn these big, heavy biblical concepts into just a feeling of being saved from our own messes, rather than being transformed into something else entirely. It’s like the song makes it all about the rescue, which is great, but is the rescue just for me, or is it for something bigger? It feels right when he talks about God never giving up, which reminds me of the shepherd leaving the ninety-nine, but I sometimes have to stop and ask if I’m really letting that change how I live or if I’m just enjoying the relief of being rescued. It’s hard to tell if I’m actually following a Savior or if I’m just glad to be out of the pit.