He'd Save Me
Written by Kenzington Nicole Anderson
"He'd Save Me" was written about 2 years ago during my sophomore year of high school. It was named "He'd Save Me' a couple hours before it was released, before that it was "My Jesus Song" That's what it was for me. A song about MY Savior.
My Sophomore year we were reading the New Testament for "Come Follow Me" and it was one of the first times I felt I really knew Christ. He was no longer an idea in my head of a perfect Savior that lived a long time ago... He is someone who really did live, love, laugh, cry, suffer, bleed, die, live again, and is actively helping me and SAVING me every day. He really did perform those miracles for those people. He really does perform miracles for me.
Every day.
I was reading the New Testament one night, and after many days of pondering, I started to write something down. I had a seminary teacher who always said "A pencil on a page is a beacon into Heaven" and it was very true that night. I started writing and wrote a whole song in about 10 minutes... It was actually like the Spirit wrote it and I was just copying the words down. I've always written songs as a way of processing how I feel, that night I wrote that song to process my LOVE for the Savior. And His love for me.
"As He walked by we'd shout with praise, on glorious Palm Sunday.
Yeah we worshipped as He walked by, and then we mocked Him the next night. Crown of thorns He wore like a king as we beg Him forgive me,
Take my soul and take my heart, because you took my sins from the very start."
So many of us are blessed enough to know we have a Savior and to know what He did for us but we still get caught up in the world sometimes. We praise Him but we mess up. We strive to be like Him but we are still human. But that is why He did what HE did for us. So on the days when we mess up and we need His mercy and HIs love He can give it to us. He can help us become more like Him. We get to have a second chance. And a third. And a fourth, and a 23rd.
"Is this not the Man who took her hand and raised her from the dead?
And He fed 5,000 people with a couple loaves of bread...
And He healed the Roman soldier from a couple miles away...
And on the cross forgive them was all that He could say."
These people knew who He was, had witnessed His miracles and had felt His love. Often miracles in our lives aren't obvious... even the TRUE miracles within these stories aren't often what is talked about. He took her hand and raised her from the dead... but on the way there He stopped. He took a moment. He felt as though something had changed within Him. He felt His power leave His body. He healed a woman of faith needing His help. He took the time in a busy and stressful situation to make that connection with someone and serve her. He made her whole... on His way to another miracle. John the Baptist was killed. Jesus' cousin, one of His best friends was killed in such a terrible way. He told the Apostles to go home, He was going to go grieve his brother in the wilderness. But that's not what happened. 5,000 people followed him into the wilderness. And He didn't turn them away. He taught them, fed them, and served them. That was the miracle that day. Serving people in the midst of your own heartbreak. He healed the roman soldier. He wasn't supposed to do that. They were different than Him, hurting people around HIm. He wasn't supposed to heal him. Many people thought the Savior was supposed to come into town and get rid of the Roman Army. He wasn't supposed to heal him. But because of the faith of the Centurion, his servant was healed. Jesus didn't care who they were politically, He cared that they knew who their Savior was and that they asked for His help. In the end of Jesus' life He experienced more pain and agony than we can imagine. He was then tortured and crucified. In the end, through His agony He cried out to His Father and asked if they could be forgiven. If we could be forgiven. That was the miracle.
"He let the guilty walk free, Barabbas who is me.
Giant nails placed in His hands. For a love for us that would never end."
Barabbas was in jail for murder. In jail right next to Jesus Christ. Because of the way things worked that day within their justice system, one of them would go free. Barabbas was set free. And that is so hard to wrap your head around. Why would the innocent one have to go and carry a cross and be nailed to it when there is someone else who deserves to do it? Who has messed up and should be punished for what they have done. But that's the whole point. We were sent to this earth, right next to Jesus Christ. We're the ones that mess up and "deserve" to be punished for it. And He saves us. He takes our place in our agony and punishment so we can take His place next to the Father. So we can be with Him for all of Eternity. He took the giant nails in His hands for a love for us that would never end.
"He washed the feet of Peter, knowing He'd deny.
But He hugged him and forgave him and He told him "It's alright."
And with His hand He calmed the storm and with his hand the sea.
He would do it all again if it only meant that He'd Save Me"
Jesus Christ knows that we aren't perfect. He knows that we will mess up and make mistakes. That doesn't mean He loves us less. That doesn't mean His blessings aren't for us. He knew Peter would deny Him. But He also knew Peter. He knew His heart. He knew who he would become. One of the best missionaries of all time, to teach a whole new world of people. And He knew that Peter would learn something. He would not deny Christ a fourth time. Even to the point of his death he asked to be upside down so as to not dishonor Christ's crucifiction. Peter could not have become all that Christ wanted him to become if he was weighed down by the guilt of his denial. Forgiveness invites not only love but growth from both parties. That is what Christ does. He calms the sea. He takes our turmoil and turns it into tranquility. He provides peace in the most chaotic of circumstances if we turn to Him and have faith in Him.
"On the third day He rose from the tomb.
The ending of humanal gloom.
Mary crying "Lord. I did all I can!"
Whenever I read of the Savior's last week I feel as though I'm holding my breath until He lives again. Whenever I read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover I feel as though I am holding my breath from 1 Nephi to 3 Nephi just waiting for Him to appear and to heal those people. When He died, the Nephites were in pure darkness and heartache for 3 days surrounded by fires, earthquakes, floods, sickness, death, and destruction. But then He came. And He saw them in their broken hearts and scars and tears. He taught them. When he told them to go home and ponder, He cast His eyes round about the multitude and beheld that they were in tears. They looked as though they were begging Him to tary a little longer with them. So He called them to come to Him. Bring Him the sick and the hurt and the broken and He would make them whole. (3 Nephi 17:5) That is when I take that breath. He's there. He is what they bet their lives on, He is what they were waiting for and praying for. They needed their Savior. But I know their Savior needed them too. After 33 years of life, 3 years of ministry helping and saving the people around Him He then suffered and died for them. A people that mocked Him and hated Him. Must have been so hard for Him because He loves those people and knows them in their struggles and wants to help them too. He saw each of them under their own fig tree and wanted them to know how much He loved them but they couldn't know, they didn't know Him. Which is why we need missionaries. To teach EVERYONE of their Savior that loves them, He wants them to know that He is there. He sees them under their fig tree and knows how to help them. Jesus came to the Americas after feeling the pain of last week and was met by a nation of people who had been waiting for Him. Waiting and longing to love Him too. They needed Him. I know our Savior LOVES being a Savior. He got to go to the Americas and feel known too.
Mary Magdalene... She knew her Savior. She was once hurting and scarred. He saw her in her struggle and knew who she could become. She became that. One of the most faithful women we get to read about in the scriptures. She experienced His healing power and walked with Him to witness Him save everyone else too. She went to the tomb and He wasn't there anymore. After everything He went through, after everything she went through witnessing someone she loves so much suffer and die... He wasn't there. She thought someone had taken Him. Her broken grieving heart was shattered into smaller pieces thinking someone would take the last bit of her friend she had left. She knew who she had become because of Him. She did all she could. Served with all her might mind and strength and still it seemed evil was winning in the end. But it didn't. It never does. Never will.
And our Savior saying "Here I am!"
He was there. He was alive. He chose her to go tell everyone. The good guys always win. I often think about what it would be like to be a witness of Christ and His Apostles, especially as I listen to this song. But this part always switches for me. I'm no longer a witness, but a young woman crying out in the tomb that I am doing all I can but I need my Savior. And He always says here I am.
"This the Man that took MY hand and raised ME from the dead.
And He fed 5,000 people with a couple loaves of bread.
And He healed the Roman Soldier from a couple miles away.
And on the cross "forgive them" was all that He could say.
And He washes our feet like Peter, knowing we'll deny.
But He hugs us and forgives us and He tells us it's alright.
And with His Hand He calms our storms, and with His Hand our seas."
I'm the one He raises from the dead. You're the one He raises from the dead. I'm one of the people He feeds. You're one of the people He feeds. He heals me from miles away. He heals you from miles away. He forgives them and He forgives me and HE FORGIVES YOU TOO! He washes our feet. He knows WE will deny. But He still loves us and forgives us! He is our constant Savior in the storms of life and He can help and guide and comfort us through all of the storms.
"He would do it all again if it only meant that He'd Save Me."
AND YOU!
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