Remedy...

So the greatly anticipated David Crowder Band's new album was released yesterday and like most of the drooling fans, I bought it yesterday. There are only ten tracks on Remedy as opposed to the twenty-one of A Collision. It is much simpler in structure but the lyrics and the music are nonetheless great and inspiring to both musician and "joe the music listener". It's much more digital than previous albums, but it adds to the sound and doesn't overkill with the digital sound like one might think. It's a great album with the majority of lyrics that are simple.
This leads me to the point that I really want to hit on. Most of the lyrics that we see and sing with David Crowder, Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, Charlie Hall, Tim Hughes, Delirious?, and the list could go on, are nothing new really. When we look through scripture we see these same ideas of God being great and beautiful, merciful and loving, compassionate and caring, powerful and majestic. We've done nothing that the Psalmist or Isaiah did not do. Which brings me to this question, does God get tired of being told the same thing over and over? Some would say that we repeat these things because we can't come up with something creative of our own to express our gratitude and love to our Creator. It would seem as though there are a set of "church words" that describe our God and those are the ones that we are expected and understood to use as worship leaders and "Christian" artists. To a certain extent, I'll agree that majestic and omniscient aren't exactly words that I normally use to describe God. I do use merciful and compassionate and loving and just. I think though that in our "puny" human language and thoughts that we have our words that are as huge and powerful as we can possibly get. We have no choice but to use the biggest and greatest words of expressing our King. He is worthy of the biggest and the best that we have. We wants all that we have. It's important that we pour out our hearts to him with all that we have. It is our call, honor, and responsibility to paint the most beautiful picture of the Creator of the universe that we can. The words that we see the Psalmist using are words of grandeur and power and majesty. Those were the biggest and greatest words that he could imagine to use. There are words that God described himself as, such as righteous, just, merciful, loving, good, powerful. Should we not use the very attributes that our Lord gave to himself?
I would say that our Lord never grows tired of hearing the same words over and over again. As long as we are truly offering it to him for his pleasure and for his glory, I seriously doubt that he cares if we simply cry out, "you are good, you are good, you are good!". He desires that his glory be lifted and and shown to the entire creation. When we praise, we do that, no matter what our words are or how many times they have been used.
"Holy, holy is the Lord" ...Isaiah, David, Paul, Peter, David Crowder, Chris Tomlin, Tim Hughes, Martin Smith