Who Can Compare – Story Behind the Song

There is a place in our hearts that longs for God- for something other and bigger than ourselves. The place that only God can fill. Some have called it a ‘God shaped hole’ and if we try to put anything other than God into that place it doesn’t fit. So often our desire for God gets misplaced onto things that we think will fill the longing, but in the end, really doesn’t fill our need or desire. So begins the endless pursuit to fill our soul with something other than the one that created our souls and who is the lover of our souls. For me, it’s bike stuff... I love mountain biking and I am always wanting the next thing that is going to give me a better ride- it rarely does, but it DOES give me the little rush of getting something new. We all have stuff that we go to for the rush. Sex. Acceptance. Money. Material things. Alcohol. Just fill in the blank. The realization of this truth (and years of struggling with it) sparked the idea for Who Can Compare. “There is a longing nothing can satisfy. Here in Your presence, LORD, You are my hearts delight.” There is only one thing I have found in life that is truly fulfilling and that is the presence of the Spirit of God. There is nothing else that lasts… the new bike part gets muddy and worn out, but God is like a spring that never runs dry that I can drink from again and again. There is nothing better than really knowing him.

Who Can Compare

Who can compare to You Redeemer

If it were not for You

Where would my life be

Everything I have, Everything I am

All that my hands can hold

I lay it before You, lay it before You Lord

There is a longing nothing can satisfy

Here in Your presence Lord

You are my heart’s delight

Jesus, Jesus, my Lord, my King forever

Jesus, Jesus, this life will bow

Before You (repeat)

Forever I love You

Oh my Jesus