You Make This Place Wonderful
8-You-Make-This-Place-Wonderful.mp3
words & music by Jimmy Workman, © 2009
VERSE 1
(The thoughts of Joseph)
I never dreamed that you would be born here, in such a place as this.
There’s nothing hear for a baby except your mother’s kiss.
You know I hear you crying in your mama’s arms.
I never though that she’d rock you in some strangers barn.
CHORUS
But you make this place lovely
And you make this place wonderful.
You make this place lovely.
Jesus, you make this place wonderful to me.
VERSE 2
(The thoughts of Mary)
I never thought I’d see you dying way up on that hill.
I guess you just became someone they just had to kill.
As I stand here crying, and they take your body down.
I know that this place is now holy, with your blood on the ground.
CHORUS
But you make this place lovely
And you make this place wonderful.
You make this place lovely.
Jesus, you make this place wonderful to me.
VERSE 3
(The thoughts of the angels)
We celebrate that you have come back here to sit down on your throne.
We know you had to go down there to make a heart your home.
But now you’re back up in heaven, and His plan is now complete.
And now we’ll spend forever bowing at your feet.
CHORUS
But you make this place lovely
And you make this place wonderful.
You make this place lovely.
Jesus, you make this place wonderful to me.
BRIDGE
We all sing..
Worthy is the Lamb, God’s Son who was slain.
Worthy is the Lamb, His blood has broken our chains.
And we sing..
Praise and honor and glory, and power forever amen.
And we sing..
Praise and honor and glory, and power forever again.
Inspiration
I began to think one day how Joseph must have felt when Jesus was born. Did he feel like a failure for they way things went down? Jesus was born away from home and nowhere to stay. Was that an embaressment to him? Then I thought, “No matter what the conditions and dreadful circumstances, when Jesus shows up, He makes that place wonderful.”
I took that thought further thinking how Mary must have felt standing there watching Jesus die on the cross. His own mother watching Him be tortured & killed. But knowing what He was doing, He even made that dreadful place wonderful, the place where He redeemed all who would be saved.
Also, what did the angels in heaven think while Jesus was here on earth? I know heaven is a perfect place, but the angels must have longed for His return, because He makes any place wonderful and lovely.
