A chorus carried for years before it found its home. Joel first captured the melody and lyric in a handwritten note: "I just want to sit at your feet, look into your eyes, find the love that I need." The words survived every failed attempt to complete the song, but the melody kept changing. The breakthrough came on a dog walk — the hum of a plane overhead, one new line, and within three weeks the entire song was complete.
"Sit At Your Feet" opens with the question at the heart of Easter — what did I do to deserve your love?
Rooted in Luke 10 (Mary choosing the better thing at Jesus' feet) and Mark 14/John 12 (the alabaster jar poured out as an offering while the room called it waste), the pre-chorus names the cross directly: "Paid it all, you took my cross / Made a way for my seat in your courts."
On Good Friday — the day the veil was torn — the song releases as a way of remembering what it took to give us that seat in His courts, and responding to the lengths He went to get us there.
Co-writer Luke Howis describes the shift that unlocked the song: presence over performance. Not the busy thing. Not the impressive thing. The better thing.
Building from stripped-back intimacy to anthemic declaration with room for spontaneous worship. Written by Joel Chan and Luke Howis. The second single from Adelaide Hills worship collective vssls. Free devotional series accompanying the song available at vsslsworship.com.
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