Story Behind Indescribable (Chris Tomlin)

God’s Plan

About a year after Story made the demo, Chris Tomlin was working on his new album with Cash. It was when they were putting some finishing touches on the CD, Arriving, which they felt was very strong, that they felt they were missing an element. Still believing in the song he and Story recorded, Cash told Tomlin about “Indescribable.” After listening, it wasn’t long before they decided to record it. They even used the actual track that that Story and Cash laid a year before, with the only modification being lowering the key. “If you listen to our albums, it’s pretty much the same identical song except for they changed a word,” says Story. “On my CD I sing ‘You’re a very big God,’ and they sing, ‘You are amazing God.’ I was like, ‘yeah, I like that.’ And so I’ve started singing it that way. Also because I don’t want people in church to say, ‘Hey, you’re messing up Chris Tomlin’s song!’

When Laura Story went in to record her song for Essential Records, she may have had her own idea of how God was going to use her offering. However, our plans are not God’s. In the case of “Indescribable” that became quite evident for Story. “We need to always see ourselves as servants. We see people like Chris Tomlin up on stage, but they are just servants, too. And our songs are all just offerings. It’s cool that so many people have been able to hear the song ‘Indescribable.’ But if I had played it for no one but the Lord, it still would have been just as sweet to Him.”

Source: Worship Leader

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