I'm going to have that full relationship someday. I'm going to have Him 100% one day with no sin, and that's going to be amazing! Right now, I still have Him, but I'm fallen. Lewis quote became the pre-chorus and wove the rest of the song together about looking for beauty, looking for God, and knowing that the only place I can find that is in Jesus. I want to know Him, so bad while I'm on Earth, that I want to be in Heaven. It got me thinking about how there's nothing really that will ever fully satisfy me here on Earth except the presence of God. I started thinking about how there's so much beauty in that 10 minutes every day, and then it goes away. It wasn't like God went away, but it was a reminder that I might not always see Him, but He's right here with me. A sunset felt like every night God showed me a little bit of His beauty and let me know He was with me. I was thinking about how to capture beauty in music, and I wasn't even coming close to a sunset, which lasts just 10 minutes. It felt like there's a relief and a sense of awe. I would walk down to the water and listen to tracks for this album and talk with God and pray multiple times a day, literally when the sun was going down. I live in downtown Seattle, and I like to go on walks during the day. And the city street was pure gold, yet it was as transparent as glass. Revelation 21:21 (VOICE): The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate expertly crafted from a single beautiful pearl. Psalm 87:7 (VOICE): Those who sing and those who dance will say together, "All my fountains of joy are in You."Īcts 4:12 (NKJV): Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Philippians 2:14-16 (NIV): "Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life-in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing." Which Bible verses connect to the message of the song? I wanted to sing joyful, triumphant, biblical truth to myself, based on situations and how I felt personally, and based on the musical bed I felt that was what this song is supposed to be about. I can't pin that on me or anything I did, like what I prayed or what I read in my Bible. It's been hard, and only completely by God's grace He's given us faith that He's good and He loves us. Subconsciously, I wanted to be focusing on this idea as we faced two more family deaths and a total of four family member deaths over a 6 month period. Then you get to this idea that you're going to live forever with God in Heaven. That's crazy!Įven on a philosophical level, you can talk with friends about Jesus, and the miracle that He paid for the sins of the world. So I was thinking, what is the most outlandish thing I can boast about? It's outlandish that I am going to live for eternity with God. We had this musical bed we were sitting on for this song, and I just really wanted to be able to sing a song with a very clear message, with a brash confidence in something that wasn't myself.īasically, I was thinking about how in rap music, there's bragging about someone's own strength in many cases, but I wanted a song that was about boasting in Christ. Then, a couple months further down the road, we lost our first child, our son, to a stillbirth, which was brutal and hard.Īll along, I'm trying to make this album, which is personal and about all of these things we were dealing with. A few weeks later, we learned that my wife's father had brain cancer out of nowhere, and he passed away 10 weeks later. She got in a car accident about a week after that. We both ended up resigning from the church we had met at, got married at, helped plant and worked at. This year has been a very difficult year for me and my wife. Please tell me the personal story behind this song. I had the chance to speak with Chad Gardner about their catchy and convicting song, "I Know." A sincere desire for the presence of God and to see His Kingdom on earth is found in every song as lead singer Chad Gardner sings the eternity-minded lyrics with an engaging and worshipful alt-rock style. What's especially cool is how this album stays true to that biblical description. This "gourmet" album is a great call to worship and is a fresh offering of praise for the Church to sing out with passion about the truth of the Word of God from Matthew 6:33 (NKJV): "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Becoming Who You Are by Seattle-based Kings Kaleidoscope was one of my Top 10 Worship Albums of 2014.
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