This week’s featured song story comes to us from Tenth Avenue North. We’re excited to share with you the story behind their song “Secrets (Light Shine In).”
“So, we wrote the song called ‘Secrets’, because I was kind of tired of watching leader after leader after leader blow up in flames when some secret allegation came out. Like, where did that start? Why didn’t they get that in the in the open a long time ago, you know?James 5 says confess your sins one to another and pray for each other that you might be healed. I always was thought that was interesting. It says in 1st John if we confess our sins to Him, He’s faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So, we confess to God, we get forgiven. We confess to other people and we get healed. Healed from what? I think namely we get healed from the mask we’ve been wearing. We get healed from the fake, awesome person we’re trying to convince everyone we are. We get healed from trying to be our own savior, because when you step into the light, and people really see you for who you really are, then you can actually be loved for who you really are.” – Tenth Avenue North
Click on the video below to hear Mike Donehey of Tenth Avenue North share the story. Scroll down to listen and read the full lyrics of the song.
From the album Things We’ve Been Afraid To Say.
“Secrets (Light Shine In)” Lyrics
Haven’t we all loved things in the darkness?
Haven’t we all lied if we’re honest?
We cheat and cover up
To protect what people think of us
But we end up hostage to all our secrets
So let the light shine in
And let the light shine in
Our God chased us all down into death
To lift us out of the shame we live in
So let the light shine in
We’re not a lost cause, we’re not unlovable
‘Cause He takes the broken and makes them beautiful
There may be pain, there may be consequence
But we know we don’t have to stand condemned
‘Cause He came to free us from all our secrets
So let the light shine in
And let the light shine in
Our God chased us all down into death
To lift us out of the shame we live in
So let the light shine in
His blood is enough to wash over the worst of us
Made clean, set free, redeemed
Yeah, His blood is enough to wash over the worst of us
Made clean, set free, redeemed, yeah
So let the light shine in
Oh, let the light shine in
Our God chased us all down into death
To lift us out of the shame we’ve lived in
So let the light shine in
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