This song is about enjoying God's presence and wondering in awe of His majesty and glory, and adoring Him as our creator. How wonderful is it that the Lord of all creation, of water earth and sky, would create a being such as ourselves in His own triune image! It's about how God's beauty is not something to be directly seen, but to be felt by the presence of the Holy Spirit. This is unlike anything we have ever felt before!
I wrote this song on the last day of our summer camp last year. We started the day with a morning worship service with our counselors. We let go of all the activities and plans we had in our heads for our closing ceremonies, and took the time to simply enjoy God's presence — not to ask for anything, but to just praise Him for all that He is. We sang our last song, "Set a Fire", the counselors were dismissed to start their day, and we kept playing for a little bit. Our worship service had ended, but the Holy Spirit still had something lingering in my heart. So I started singing, "You make me. You take me away. You swept me off my feet, off my feet again." I just kept singing those lines over and over again, and every single time, the last line would strike something really deep down in my heart. God, you sweep me off my feet over and over again, reminding me that You are my Creator. Thank You for making me.
In the words of Matthew West, "What love the Father has lavished upon us that we should be called His children!" ("Hello, My Name Is" by Matthew West)
And to close, a psalm:
"One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple." -psa.27.4Peace, love, and pan-fried ramen,
-Brandon
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