"Known" (and loved by you) by Tauren Wells
set to scenes from the Son of God movie
I cannot find the reasons why you give me so much" sounds like the Prodigal's song to me!
The song is "Known" by Tauren Wells, a Christian musician and worship leader. The full lyrics can be printed from https://genius.com/Tauren-wells-known-lyrics. Excerpt below.
This would work as a reflection piece for older children, and definitely for youth.
It is called a "Mashup" when you combine video clips from one source with a song from another. They are also known in copyright terms as "transformative works" and are generally protected fair use when used for non-commercial purposes. Youtube grants its standard license to such fan works.
Some lesson possibilities:
- Give the kids a copy of the full lyrics.
- Play the video once, then before you play it a second time, ask, "What scenes in the video stuck out to you and seemed to particularly 'fit' the song lyrics?" Discuss.
- Check out the lyrics. Which phrase is your favorite? Which one needs explained?
- How does realizing that you are "fully known and loved" make you feel inside?
- How is it that God "knows" us so well?
- How does it make us want to turn around our lives and come home?
- What does the Father want us to do with such knowledge (that we are fully known and loved)? ...share it with our brother.
- Who high and wide is God's forgiveness?
- Who else in the New Testament could have sung this song? Peter?
- "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" Jeremiah 1:5
LYRIC EXCERPT:
[Verse 1]
It's so unusual it's frightening
You see right through the mess inside me
And you call me out to pull me in
You tell me I can start again
And I don't need to keep on hiding
[Chorus]
I'm fully known and loved by You
You won't let go no matter what I do
And it's not one or the other
It's hard truth and ridiculous grace
To be known fully known and loved by You
I'm fully known and loved by You
[Verse 2]
It's so like You to keep pursuing
It's so like me to go astray
But You guard my heart with Your truth
A kind of love that's bullet proof
And I surrender to Your kindness
