How many things in life can we know?  The song, "My Redeemer Lives," by Nicole C. Mullen, talks about a knowing that isn't casual, but fundamental.  Something we depend on.  Something that sustains us.  Joy filling.

And I know my Redeemer lives

I know my Redeemer lives

Let all creation testify

Let this life within me cry

I know my Redeemer lives.

The chorus says, "Let all creation testify."  Creation testified while Jesus was dying on the cross.  Mark 15:33 says, "When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the nineth hour."  The first verse of the song says:

Who taught the sun where to stand in the morning?

And who told the ocean, you can only come this far?

And who showed the moon where to hide 'til evening?

Whose words alone can catch a falling star?

Nicole said the inspiration for the song came from Job 19:25, "For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth."  Job is said to be the oldest book in the Bible.  The theme of redemption, God buying us back, runs through the Bible.  How much more sight we have now since Jesus' life on earth, His death, and His resurrection!

The chorus says, "Let this life within me cry."  Because of what Jesus did, we can share in His life.

He lives to take away my shame

And He lives forever, I'll proclaim

That the payment for my sin

Was the precious life He gave

But now He's alive and

There's an empty grave...

The very same God that spins things in orbit

Runs to the weary, the worn, and the weak

And the same gentle hands that hold me when I'm broken

They conquered death to bring me victory

What a wonderful truth.  "I know my Redeemer lives."

"My Redeemer Lives" won the 2001 Dove Song of the Year Award.