Even though I prefer to make new recordings of the songs I post here if the older ones aren’t up to snuff. Sometimes I can’t do as well now, much less better. The recording of this song is too special to try to improve on, as you’ll understand why when you read its history below these lyrics…
God is my Heavenly Father;
He made me who I am.
He wants all that’s best for me;
It’s written in His plan.
His Son is like a big brother
Who guides me as I go.
The closer I walk beside Jesus,
The more like Him I grow.
Yes, the more like Him I grow.
The more I come to love Jesus,
The more I learn about me:
Who I was and who I am
And who God wants me to be.
It’s a lifelong transformation;
The changes seem so slow.
Yet the more I seek to please Jesus,
The more like Him I grow.
Yes, the more like Him I grow.
While I was away on a mission trip to Australia in 1995, my daughter, Kristi, made a profession of her faith in Jesus Christ at our home church; she was eight years old at the time. I wrote this song soon after my return, dedicating it “to Kristi at the beginning of her Christian growth.”
She sang it with me at our church not long after that and again at the Windsor District Baptist Church in Australia on a family trip in 1996. Never has her singing been sweeter. We’re singing it together here. A free lead sheet is here.
Our growth into human adulthood takes years, and our growth into full Christian maturity takes even longer. As this song states, the growth into being who God wants us to be “is a lifelong transformation.”
Christians don’t necessarily mature equally. But those who “seek to please Jesus” will continue to grow into the kind of people God wants them to be.
I write Christian novels as well as songs. Wait for Me is a new release. It’s quite different from any of my other twenty-four novels.
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