You Be The One
Song Meaning
Point of Grace address this song to someone else's calling rather than their own: "sometimes you don't know what to do or what to say when someone tells you all their trouble, all their pain, you don't feel like you've got much to offer." The uncertainty is named before the song answers it.
"That's when you come to Jesus and you lay it on the altar, the burden's not as heavy as you might think it is, He's right there with you beside you" reframes the pressure — not carrying someone else's pain alone, but bringing both the pain and the inadequacy to Jesus together.
"With a little grace he can heal the broken past, help you forgive someone who can't forgive you back" widens the song into forgiveness specifically, the harder kind aimed at someone who hasn't asked for it. Paul's instruction to bear one another's burdens gives the chorus's repeated call, "you be the one," its exact shape — not a solo rescue, just showing up.
Sometimes you don’t know what to do or what to say
When someone tells you all their trouble, all their pain
You don’t feel like you’ve got much to offer
That’s when you come to Jesus and you lay it on the altar
The burden’s not as heavy as you might think it is
He’s right there with you beside you time as this
You be the one to answer his call
You be the one to stand up tall
Reaching out to lift them up
With the arms of love when they’re feeling small
You be the one to shine the eyes of Jesus
Even when you think that they don’t need you
Don’t give up until the race is run
You be the one
With a little grace he can heal the broken past
Help you forgive someone who can’t forgive you back
Speak a word of kindness, a little comfort for their soul
Sit awhile and cry with them and help them to let it go
Even when it feels like you can’t take one more step
So run the road of Jesus and let him do the rest
See them look down in the ground
It grows and ends up
Coming back around
He knew, He’d be the one for you