All the poor and powerless
All the lost and lonely
The second verse continues:
All the hearts who are content
and All who feel unworthy
All who hurt with nothing left
Value is a hard beast to tackle. There is this image painted that struggling with value is specifically a female thing. There is also the image that the struggle to find value is only a phenomenon of a person's early life. That is not true. It is a human thing. It is an everybody thing. It is an all the time thing. We are constantly trying to find our value in things, in other people, in activities. Things that are tangible. For me, I often search for my value in my school work. It is tangible. But I am not the grade on the paper. We have to keep going back to those things that we think yield value because they never really fill us up.
When we search for our value in these tangible things, we often feel just as the song describes - poor and powerless, lost and lonely, unworthy. The situation becomes more desperate because we try to convince ourselves that we can fix those feelings - that there is something we can do.
At the end of each verse of the song, the lyrics say this:
Know that You are holy
Holy is a word I am very familiar with. It is found throughout the Bible, incorporated into hymns and praise songs, prayers and devotions. It is used so much, that I don't often think about what it means. Here is what the dictionary offers:
Holy: specially recognized or declared sacred
We are specially recognized by God. We are declared His sacred sons and daughters. There is no award, no affirmation, no compliment that can compare to God's value for us. There is also nothing we can do to attain this value. This value was set the day that His son was nailed to the cross. Because of Jesus' sacrifice, we were made wholly children of God; Because He is holy, He decided to make us holy.
~SP
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