People Need

by Macy Johnson

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock.

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.”

(Revelation 3:20 NIV)

 

One Sunday morning I was the substitute pianist at my church and presented Mark Hayes’ arrangement of “People Need the Lord” for the anthem. Steve Green recorded Greg Nelson and Phill Mchugh’s song in 1984. The lyrics gracefully express the story of our need to help those in need like us:

 

We are called to take His light

To a world where wrong seems right

Empty people filled with care

Headed who knows where

 

Through His love our hearts can feel

All the grief they bear

They must hear the words of life

Only we can share

 

People need the Lord

At the end of broken dreams

He’s the open door

When will we realize people need the Lord?

When will we realize we must give our lives?

 

I am a needy being. When I complain to my husband, Jeff, he reminds me the difficulties we face today are recycled. The problems I encounter are not new, only with different locations and times. Nations and people rise and fall under God’s loving, watchful care.

 

Although created in God’s image, the human race has fallen and cannot save itself. Our heavenly Father planted a bottomless pit in our hearts for Him alone to fill if we ask Him to do so.

 

Every day I fail at every task and wound others in the process. Every moment I need Jesus. Every second I need forgiveness from my Creator and the Lover of my soul.

 

“He lifted the needy out of their affliction.”

(Psalm 107:41 NIV)

 

I will live my life to point others to the only Savior we need. I hope you will, too!