Yeshu, Tera Naam Sabse Uncha Hai
Happy Monday! How was your weekend?
I decided to do something different for our Chamatkars this week. I would like to take you on a personal journey through seven of my best-known songs and the stories behind them.
Starting with the first song I ever wrote, when I was just 17 years old. It would soon become an anthem for Hindi worship and be sung in Hindi-speaking congregations all over the world.
Here’s the story.
Every year, right beside the building where I lived, around September or October, they’d set up a tent that would serve as a celebration centre for a religious festival.
For days on end, they’d blast the same songs for their idols, and one of them said: “Deva, o Deva, Ganpati Deva, tum se badhkar kaun?”
And that question, “Is there anyone greater than you?” would intrigue me because, as a Christian, I knew the Bible provided an answer!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. – Philippians 2:9-11 https://www.bible.com/bible/113/PHP.2.9-11
In response to the question my neighbours kept asking their god, the very first line I ever wrote was, “Yeshu, Tera Naam Sabse Uncha Hai.” That single, simple line went on to become the most requested song I have ever written: Yeshu Tera Naam Sabse Uncha Hai
When the song was eventually released, I would play it at full volume on my home theatre system, letting the music spill beyond the walls of my home—so that everyone attending the puja during the festival could hear it as well.Whether they know it or not, the world around us is searching for answers, and we have the ultimate answer to give them: Jesus!
He declared:
I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. – John 6:35
