Another Song Complaint

I know I already did a post about a praise song from our church service, but I have to address the newest one. This time it is a song called Healing Rain, and being me, I of course have a couple of complaints. Some of the lyrics I do not agree with, but the major problem this time was our Worship and Communications Pastor left out Jesus! Of all the words in a song to omit, how can you skip over the name of our Lord and Saviour in a worship service? The line in question here goes as follows: Tears of joy and tears of shame, Are washed forever in Jesus' name. As I mentioned he skipped the name of Jesus and replaced it with "healing rain". Washed forever in healing rain? To me this was totally unacceptable. I was so shocked I lost my place in the song and quit singing all together. Aside from this mix up I took issue with some of the lyrics as they were actually written.
Here is the chorus to the song:
Healing rain it comes with fire
So let it fall and take us higher
Healing rain I'm not afraid
To be washed in heaven's rain

So where to begin here. Well my objection to the song as a whole is that it implies we are washed by a rain. Last I checked we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ alone. The narrow gate, Redeemer, Bread of Life, and of course our Saviour.

• Hebrews 9:22 22In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
• Isaiah 53:4-6 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows;Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

No mention of any rain there. I hate to sound like I am beating the same old horse, but this is a top tier issue of Christianity. We can disagree on smaller things , like foot washing or something, but not on how we are forgiven. The Bible is very clear on that point.

One last smaller point in this song: Lift your heads let us return, To the mercy seat where time began.

• 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
• Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

The only mention of a mercy seat I could find where in the Old Testament. This was mostly in Exodus in the instructions for constructing the Ark.

I will say this song had one good section. "So lift up your hands they can be held, By someone greater, the Great I Am."

In closing I offer this, the longest sentence in The Bible. Paul got started and he was so in awe of the wonder bestowed upon us he just couldn't seem to stop praising. We could all learn from this.

• Ephesians 1:3-14 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.