Majesty (2008) – Michael W Smith

Posted on June 15, 2023 by observationblogger — Leave a comment

Majesty is the fifth song here from Michael W Smith and was released on his 2008 album A New Hallelujah. I wrote articles about ‘Grace‘ which is the focal point of this song: I Won’t Forget and Every Passing Minute is Another Chance to Turn it all Around.
A New Hallelujah is Smith’s third live praise collection. He and a conglomerate of musicians, singers, and stagehands took to one of America’s biggest megachurches, Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, to sing praise choruses, an assemblage of covers and Smith originals that, in one way or another, attempt to replicate the tone and tenor of his mega-sellers Worship and Worship Again.

[Chorus 1]
Singin’ Majesty
Majesty
Your grace has found me just as I am
Empty handed but alive in Your hands
We’re singing, Majesty
We’re singing, Majesty
Forever, forever I am changed by Your love
In the presence of Your Majesty

[Chorus 2]
We’re singing Majesty, Majesty
Your grace, Your grace has found me just as I am
Empty handed but alive in Your hands
We’re singing Majesty, Majesty
Forever I am changed by Your love
In the presence of Your Majesty

I am a huge fan of Christian music in particular Hillsong, Marcela Gandara and Michael W Smith. I was baptised in 2003 by the Mornington Baptist church in Victoria, Australia. I was introduced to a plethora of Christian artists and groups whose music I still hold very dear. Michael W Smith was one such figure who stood out. I am no longer a firm believer in any one theistic doctrine, but I do hold high regard for the Judaeo-Christian concept of The Logos, moral-truths and archetypes / meta-heroes.

Ben Shapiro raised a point in his discussion at 3.20 with Russell Brand which I wrote about here in April this year about how Christians and Jews act out their faiths. Shapiro even admits before he goes on, that this is his Jewish interpretation. Personally, I feel so attuned with what he said and yet I imagine few people are cognizant of it. I’ll quote parts of Ben’s message below:

What Judaism says, you are a human being with a capacity for great good and great evil….These things a battling in you literally at all times. And what your job is to do, regardless of what you believe, you do the thing. The thing that is front of you is the thing that you do. So, we have these arcane set of rules to reify (?) the presence of God in your life. Even if you don’t recognise that is what it’s doing, by you doing these things over and over you are cultivating virtue through action. So it’s like you reach God by doing the thing.

I think Christianity comes at it from the other way. There’s reward in it and a risk in it. Christianity says you believe the thing, then you do the thing. Judaism says you do the thing therefore you believe the thing…. The access point for Christianity is a lot easier..you experience a transcendent moment and the moment is supposed to animate your life. The danger is transcendent moments disappear real fast…5 minutes from now you are not feeling God. That’s the book of Exodus. They receive the ten commandments and five minutes later they are building a golden cow.

But I think the gap has been sort of closed in the sense Christianity re-ritualised a lot of things. Christians still go to church even if they are not feeling it that day. They are still going to give charity even if they are not feeling it that day…all discipline is this.

Reference:
1. A New Hallelujah – All Music.com