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Story Behind the Song: Phil Wickham's "Safe"
Q: By now, many know that the story behind "Safe" came about because of a powerful story of God's provision in a Home Depot parking lot. Powerful how God moves, eh? Anyways, now that the song has been on the radio a while and you've been playing it live, have you seen the message of the song take on a life of its' own?
A: "Yeah actually. The lyrics of 'Safe' serve to encourage, strengthen and remind listeners that we are not alone. Sure, we have each other to lean on in tough and trying times, but more significantly we are safe in the arms of the same God that created the depths of the oceans, the far expanse of the universe, and wrote his only Son into the story of humanity as a living sacrifice so that we may have the relationship that was once torn by the Fall, resurrected and redeemed for eternity.
There are so many commandments that say 'don't be anxious,' so many promises that say 'He will never leave us and never forsake us,' but when you forget God is there and you forget to look up at the sky and stars or any of His creation, you forget how massive God is and how if He can figure out how to make an eyeball work - He definitely knows how to take care of us. It is good that you be reminded of these things, because that is so much of what a Christian artist, even more so a worship leader is supposed to do for the Church.
If we are Christians, we know God is great and we know what Jesus did on the cross. We know all the stories, but to be reminded of and to be compelled to move by those stories, I feel, is in a way a large part of what my goal in music is - to remind the Church of the reality of the Gospel, the importance of the cross, of the excitement and hope that we have in Heaven."
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