Music Review: John A Misunderstood Messiah

John: A Misunderstood Messiah
Michael Card
2014

1. The Bread, the Light, The Life
2. Come and See
3. The One Who Was Sent
4. How Can These Things Be?
5. All I've Ever Done
6. Come to Me and Drink
7. Scribbling in the Sand
8. Jesus Wept
9. One Long Final Walk
10. Stranger on the Shore

I am loving this album--just loving it. The entire album is inspired by the Gospel of John. As a few of you probably know already--John is my favorite and best gospel. (John, Revelation, 1 John all are FAVORITES of mine.)

I think all the songs are scriptural and beautiful. I do have a few favorites.

One of my favorite songs is "Jesus Wept" which tells the story of John 11.

Familiar figure comes
And now He's three days late
How could He take so long?
Why did He hesitate?
Two women questioned Him,
Both weeping as they came,
Completely different, yet
And still they're both the same.
Martha's grasping atsome vague religious hope;
And less anxiety she can barely cope.
But Mary's gasping with her own hopeful fear;
Lazarus would not have died,
If you had been here.
Did Jesus weep for their disbelief?
Or did He cry because His friend had died?
Took on Himself all of their pain and fear?
Explain the mystery of the silent tears.
He stood beside the tomb of His beloved friend.
He shouted out these words they could not comprehend.
Then rose the smiling corpse, familiar silhouette;
That was the moment that they never would forget.
Jesus wept that day misterious silent tears,
The reason that He cried never will be clear.
But there's one certain thing, for now that we can say,
He had come to wipe all their tears away.
Did Jesus weep for their disbelief?
Or did He cry because His friend had died?
Took on Himself all of their pain and fear?
Explain the mystery of the silent tears.

There are at least two other songs worth mentioning--highlighting. I love "All I've Ever Done," which tells the story of the woman at the well in John 4. And "One Long Final Walk" which tells the story of John 15-16.

This whole album is WONDERFUL.


© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible