One Thing Remains is a beautiful song written by Brian Johnson, Christa Black & Jeremy Riddle. It has been described by some as "musically and spiritually powerful . In July 2012, Tony Weir,Program & Music Director a of House FM described it "one of the best songs of the year"
This song has been popularized by Jesus Culture, and quite rightly.
Yesterday morning, while at work, I just found myself blurting out the words of this song spontaneously. It was on my heart for most of the day. So, today, I decided to Google the story to this song, and found some amazing things. Personally, I find that sometimes the story behind a song tells you something deep about it, gives you a sneak peek into the moment or moments when the sing came out. It gives you an idea of what the writer/singer was going through at the time.
I came across an interview that Brian Johnson (one of the co-writers) gave. The whole interview can be found here (. When asked how he came up with the song, one of the things he said was
The chorus: ‘Your love never fails, it never gives up, it never runs out on me’, came to me spontaneously during worship about six years ago. I sat on that chorus, and would put it in different moments but that’s all I had. Then we started collaborating on the song with a couple of different people here then we came up with the bridge and verses.
It is just fantastic, that the chorus came out "unplanned" in a worship service. A God-moment perhaps??
The lyrics of the songs are also very Biblical,with every line referring to some verse of the Bible. Lauren does a great job linking the lyrics to the various verses they refer to.
Michael Anthony Howard writes a brilliant post, entitled "ONE THING REMAINS: WORSHIP AS BEING THE CHURCH AND PROCLAIMING GOD’S UNFAILING LOVE", in which he talks a dependence on God's Love, humility, personal and corporate church worship as a church.
He concludes his post by saying "It is God’s love that we are expected to live out of–not our abilities, not our knowledge, not our own answers to social issues, not our own strengths, not our gifts, not our own ANYTHING! Why? Because, when all else fails, God’s love is unfailing."
Well, it just about summarizes it, does it?? Hope you read Michael's thoughts get time to listen this song!!!
