You'll Come, The Story of the Song.

1. “You’ll Come,” Story of the Song<br />“You’ll Come,” by Brooke Gabrielle Fraser Ligertwood, known professionally as Brooke Frazer in 2007, is based on Hosea 6, especially vv. 1-3:<br />1 “Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”<br />Hosea is the hard but lovely story in which God commands Hosea, one of His prophets, to live out the metaphor of God’s unending love for us even though we constantly and consistently betray Him. Hosea is told to go and marry Gomer, a woman of ill-repute, which he does. True to her reputation, she continues her unfaithfulness and eventually runs off. Hosea, who has every right to have her put away (divorce) or even stoned as an adulteress, nevertheless, humiliates himself before the people and comes after her – time and time again.<br />The object of the living metaphor is that though we sink into sin and disgrace, as sure as the sun rises and as sure as the rain falls in Palestine in the summer and winter in the season, God will come after us. He will literally “move Heaven and Earth” to bring us back to Himself.<br />Brooke Fraser, born in New Zealand in 1983, has been writing and singing Christian music and some light pop music since the early 2000s. She has performed with numerous Australian and Kiwi groups, most notably, Hillsong, which has probably the best known version of this piece.<br />In 2006, Brooke was led to Africa where she immersed herself in Rwanda, ultimately, with her husband, Scott Ligertwood, adopting a Rwandan orphan, Albertine, about whom she wrote one of her most popular songs of the same name, Albertine, which went double-platinum in 2006. In between her musical concerts, she devotes a great deal of time to fund-raising for the children of Africa.<br />Hillsong’s version of this beautiful piece may be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RmZFaruXhs<br />The text reads as follows:<br />I have decided I have resolvedTo wait upon you LordMy rock and redeemer shall not be movedI’ll wait upon you LordPre ChorusAs surely as the sun will riseYou'll come to usAs certain as the dawn appearsChorusYou'll come let your glory fallAs you respond to usSpirit reign flood our heartsWith holy fire againVerse 2We are not shaken we are not movedWe wait upon you LordOur Mighty deliverer my triumph and truthI'll wait upon you LordBridgeChains be brokenLives be healedEyes be openedChrist is revealed<br />