Claire Hamilton
For Claire Hamilton - worship leader, songwriter and music teacher within her local high school - the act of making worship music is not the final destination. Instead...
Claire HamiltonSONG STORIES
We Will look To The Cross
Claire Hamilton
In August of 2009 I turned up at church one morning carrying a feeling that I had much too much ‘stuff’ that I wasn’t
willing to let go of in order to worship freely. I think the Holy Spirit acts as a seal, to identify us as His and to protect us; if this seal is broken we become vulnerable to all sorts of things. I felt like I had grieved the Holy Spirit and felt as though He was grieving for me. He knows and feels the cost and pain that sin can cause and how we lose out on perfectcommunion with God.
God spoke to me that Sunday morning and said, “don’t let anything obscure your view of the cross!” In view of God’s mercy I needed to get some things in order. I started to pen the words of this song as a way of re-focusing my heart and head on Jesus and the cross. Jesus has completely won my heart yet there are times in life when it seems that other people and other things have too much of my heart and attention. I need to keep coming back to the cross over and over again. In sacrificing for Jesus I know the freedom, power and acceptance that He gives. That is worth sacrificing for.
