Sun Burst : The song

i have been an ardent fan of Hillsong united since 2007. I remember the first album i listened to was 'Mighty to save'-2007 then came Savior King- 2008, Faith, Hope and Love-2009, Beautiful exchange-2010, God is able 2011, Cornerstone-2012, Glorious ruins and Aftermath 2013, Zion 2014. Now in 2015 we have Empires album which is completely blowing away all my mental faculties, sweeping over the entirety of who iam.

Today i just want to review the song Sunburst from this album.
this song highlights the way God’s love and power has dawned on us like the sun pervading the entirety of all that we are like a sunburst . In order to capture the theme of this song we must delve into the dictionaries and ask ourselves, what is a sunburst ?
Read this…
a sudden brief appearance of the full sun from behind clouds

So Gods love in totality suddenly beams in full in an appearance behind the clouds.

The first verse goes like this

You draw our hearts from the shadows
Towards Your horizon
leaving the shade of the half light
To follow the Son
The city stirs in the twilight
In search of the morning
Street s finding life in the Sunburst
Of Your bright shining love

John 1:16-17 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.

17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. (kjv)

That old dispensation of the law was a shadow, for the law was a shadow of the things to come (col 2 :16-17). His fullness drew us from that shadow towards his horizon. The law was an administrator to lead us to Christ . Now that we have Christ the son, lets follow him.

Every human being, every soul upon being launched on the face of the earth engages in the long daunting journey of self actualization. We all have been born in a world that is itching for the fullest manifestation of redemption. The creation is in earnest search of its morning. Every human effort to improve life, to have a tranquil life free of debt, hunger, poverty, etc is an earnest search of a new morning.

2samuel23: 4as the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the earth, Through sunshine after rain.'(NASB)

PSALM 103:6My soul waits for the Lord More than the watchmen for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.

Weeping may lat for a night but joy comes with the morning

Our night represents dispensation of the dark days without hope and without a God.

Every heart wants the glaze of the morning sun and basking in the everlasting rays of his eternal love is an enticement the soul cannot resist.

For the Light has come
And the night cannot understand it
As the world keeps spinning
This hope within us is rising

Halleluyah for the son of God has dawned on us with healing in his wings. He came to seek and to save that which is lost. He came to call the sons of men from the pits of death to the sit of life. What more can we say? What shall happen to a man who neglects such a great salvation? This even the thickest of darkness couldn’t stand. This singular act of love has left the world forever hoping, forever rejoicing .

And like the rising sun
Wake up Your light in us
And we will shine like grace
As we call on Your Name

Lets rise us then:

Isa 60:1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Jesus is the light of the world. He came so that we don’t have to stumble in the dark any more , he came and created a new day called ‘today’ (heb 4) that day my friend has no darkness in it. That day pervades any dark area of ur life and lives us glowing in the light of his glory .

Join me as we review verse 2 of the song in the next post

sunburst