As a sort of thesis for the album, the first track (Eternal Insecurity) lays out the questions and claims that could very well sum up the entire content of the following ten tracks. The album begins with identifying both a common hope of humanity (“all we want’s to go to heaven”) and a shared fear (“what if we all burn in hell?”).

It seems that to be human there is the longing for something more, something beyond death, and yet also the shared fear of what that might be. In identifying this, the playing field is leveled as we all identify together our hopes and fears as the human race. It is because of this that the next statement (“we are all sick and broken”) can be made.

It is our longing for something beyond this life that reveals the problem with this one. Quite literally, we all experience illness and disease and are infested with the most problematic of all viruses: death. The brokenness of humanity is evidenced by the visible malevolence of war, famine, rape, pillage, and oppression. It is confirmed by the hatred we feel in our hearts toward others, the way that we move through life constantly battling the desire to look only after ourselves, the arrogance of our own importance, and the negligence of the needs and desires of others.

Humanity is plagued with a problem that points toward hopelessness and despair. It is here that humanity is again united in its search for purpose.

What then is the meaning of our existence in light of this brokenness? We cry out for an answer (“oh Redemption come and dwell”), the only logical answer of which is that either there is none, or its manifestation can be in none other than the Divine.

It is here that the Divine is beckoned to reveal Itself, a cry for revelation.

It is the recognition and the admittance of the promise that though there is despair, all hope is not lost.

That there is indeed a Hope that holds the key for redemption from this sickness and brokenness.

That those who wander through this life are not void of this Hope, and that in response to the call for Redemption to come, It has chosen and does indeed choose, to come and dwell and be among us.

The promise of the Divine made manifest not just in some idea but in a Person: God Himself With Us. And because of this promise, because of this Redemption, there is the Hope that all those who wander are not lost.