I remember working at Hume Lake while the camp band was Everybody Duck. I really liked them. I still do. They have some really good songs. They do a great job of God-centered worship leading. Darin McWatters is a great guy and I really appreciated his wisdom on the few occasions when I talked to him back then. There’s one song in particular that I remember especially enjoying. I still sing it in the shower sometimes to be honest. I’m not sure if it’s their original work or if somebody else wrote it, but in any case it’s called I’m Sustained. One part of the song reads, “I know what I’m worth, I remember the cross.” I never really thought too much about this but recently I’ve run into a lot of passages of scripture that seem to refute this way of looking at the cross. Is. 48:9-11 comes to mind.
I think there may be a sort of both-and here, but it seems to say that the cross is about the greatness of God’s own name and not primarily about the greatness of our worth. It reminds me of a sermon I recently heard in which the pastor said that what God values most is exalting and glorifying God’s name. In a human, this characteristic would be supremely evil, the pastor said, but proclaiming and exalting His own name is the most loving thing God can do because there is only one name under heaven by which men can be saved.
