
You And Me
Listen first. Then read the words, explore the Scripture pathway, and follow the song beyond itself to Jesus.
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You And Me
Read together: Job 26:7–14; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalm 74:16–17; Genesis 8:22; Colossians 1:16–20
Have you ever stopped and wondered how the world works? This song does, with a sense of childlike awe. How does the land stay separated from the sea? Why don't the mountains sink? How do clouds filled with rain stay aloft? How do fluffy clouds produce mighty hurricanes? Who teaches an orchid how to deceive? The questions tumble out one after another.
Scripture asks many of the same questions. Read Job 26:7–14. Job says that God "stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight." Thousands of years ago, Job marveled at the same thing this song wonders about—clouds full of water that do not fall all at once. Then he says, "These are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the word we hear of Him!"
Read Jeremiah 5:22. God says, "I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail." The song asks why the land stays separate from the sea. Scripture says God set the boundary.
The bridge asks who made the day and told the night to follow, and who made the seasons. Read Psalm 74:16–17. "The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun. You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made summer and winter." And after the flood, God promised in Genesis 8:22: "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
The chorus names the One behind it all: His name is Creator and Master of all… His name is Jesus, Ruler over everything. Read Colossians 1:16–20. "For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible… all things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." The final chorus adds that the Father, Jesus His Son, the Holy Spirit—all three in One—made it all. The Bible shows the Father, Son, and Spirit all at work in creation.
But the third verse holds the song's most surprising line: I can't tell you what it's all about or how God made it all come to be—but I do know making all creation had to be a whole lot easier than saving a sinner like me! Creating the universe took a word. Saving sinners took the cross. God spoke the stars into being, but He had to give His Son to bring us home.
That is why the tag ends where it does. Above it all, they created us to love the most—that's you and me!… There's no greater love that has ever been laid down than when Jesus wore thorns that made a crown, when He died for all on top of Mount Calvary, and rose again.
The God who holds the oceans in their place holds you too. And the One who made the stars died to make you His.
A moment to respond: Step outside today and notice one thing in creation that makes you wonder—a cloud, a tree, the ocean, a flower. Read Job 26:14 and Colossians 1:16–17. Then thank God not only for creating the world, but for doing the harder thing: saving you.
Let's pray: Creator God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—You hung the earth on nothing, set the boundary of the sea, and made summer and winter. We stand in awe of Your power. But we are even more amazed that You loved us enough to send Jesus to wear a crown of thorns and die for us. Thank You for doing everything for us. Amen.
Our desire at UnrelentingJesus is that every wonder of creation would remind you of the greater wonder—that the Creator of all things gave Himself for you.