107

The title points to Psalm 107, and Josh Garrels stays close to that chapter's wording. "This love endures forever" restates the psalm's refrain of steadfast love, and the next line, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so," is nearly verse 2. Short as it is, the piece reads like a psalm being sung back to God by someone who has lived the story.

The middle lines follow Psalm 107:20: "He sent His word and it did heal us / From our rebellion and our afflicted bones." Healing here is tied to rebellion, so the cure covers sin as well as sickness. Then comes the path home, "through the wilderness / Far beyond the gates of death," borrowing the psalm's picture of travelers rescued from desert wandering and the doors of death.

A personal note ends it. "I was alone in the wilderness / When you showed me faithfulness" moves from the psalm's group testimony to one voice, answered by a repeated, quiet "O Lord."