Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 21.11.1999
Depth meets height
How difficult it is for man to meet God! About that is my pain.
Cry in the depth
Out of the depth there is a cry to the height,
from the darkness to the light.
The answer from the height doesn't reach him who cries,
the depth doesn't understand the height.
Out of the height there is a call to the depth,
from the light to the darkness.
The message of the light doesn't reach the darkness.
The darkness doesn't figure out the speech of the light.
A sighing in the deep: Why doesn't he reply!
A sorrow in the high: He doesn't understand my calling!
There is a shout from the high to the deep:
Look, I will come down, the light into the darkness.
From the deep there is a bitter complaint:
God doesn't reply to me. So He doesn't exist.
How would God and man understand each other?
The Word came out from God, in the form of a man.
He came into the world through the womb of Mary.
God became man,
that the deep could understand the speech of the high.
In the middle of the deep there is the high,
among sinners there is the sinless,
God with us, Jesus Christ.
Out of Golgotha He cries to the height.
The answer of the height reaches him who cries.
Darkness came over the land, the earth shook and the rocks split,
when the Word of the height stepped down into the deepest depth
and brought the answer to all who cry.
The depth is not anymore without the answer.
There is a shout from the height to the deepest darkness:
It is finished! Come up here to the throne of God!
Glory to the Lamb of God in the highest!
Jesus Christ will rule on the earth!
He has also the keys of the depth.
In the depth there is the invitation of the height.
The light is near prisoners of darkness.
I answered to your invitation, Jesus.
You are my Lord and my God.
Thanks to you that you revealed God to me,
you took me from the darkness to the light.
The depths of my heart were broken looking at your sacrifice.
Now you are the light with me when I live in the darkness.
You, the Height, are near me in the depth.
"This is what the high and lofty One says - He who lives for ever, whose name is holy: 'I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'" Isaiah.57.15
Do not say in your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ down or Who will descend into the deep? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead." But you say in your heart: "The word is near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the worth of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Rom.10:6-9
Out of the depth there is a cry to the height,
from the darkness to the light.
The answer from the height doesn't reach him who cries,
the depth doesn't understand the height.
Out of the height there is a call to the depth,
from the light to the darkness.
The message of the light doesn't reach the darkness.
The darkness doesn't figure out the speech of the light.
A sighing in the deep: Why doesn't he reply!
A sorrow in the high: He doesn't understand my calling!
There is a shout from the high to the deep:
Look, I will come down, the light into the darkness.
From the deep there is a bitter complaint:
God doesn't reply to me. So He doesn't exist.
How would God and man understand each other?
The Word came out from God, in the form of a man.
He came into the world through the womb of Mary.
God became man,
that the deep could understand the speech of the high.
In the middle of the deep there is the high,
among sinners there is the sinless,
God with us, Jesus Christ.
Out of Golgotha He cries to the height.
The answer of the height reaches him who cries.
Darkness came over the land, the earth shook and the rocks split,
when the Word of the height stepped down into the deepest depth
and brought the answer to all who cry.
The depth is not anymore without the answer.
There is a shout from the height to the deepest darkness:
It is finished! Come up here to the throne of God!
Glory to the Lamb of God in the highest!
Jesus Christ will rule on the earth!
He has also the keys of the depth.
In the depth there is the invitation of the height.
The light is near prisoners of darkness.
I answered to your invitation, Jesus.
You are my Lord and my God.
Thanks to you that you revealed God to me,
you took me from the darkness to the light.
The depths of my heart were broken looking at your sacrifice.
Now you are the light with me when I live in the darkness.
You, the Height, are near me in the depth.
"This is what the high and lofty One says - He who lives for ever, whose name is holy: 'I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'" Isaiah.57.15
Do not say in your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ down or Who will descend into the deep? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead." But you say in your heart: "The word is near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart, that is, the worth of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Rom.10:6-9
The Bible version used in references is NIV